multimedia support in ubuntu

[Philippe Landau]

Philippe Landau wrote on 03.11.2004:
>> We're still working out some of the difficult legal / policy issues 
>> involved with multimedia support.
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/helpcenterfaq.2004-09-15.6357540221/view?searchterm=multimedia 
> is it possible to get a comment on this work
> by an ubuntu/canonical lawyer working on this ?
why is multimedia not even mentioned among the goals
for the next version of ubuntu ?
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryGoals

kind regards     philippe