Restricted formats and legality

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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Chanchao wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 11:20 -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
> 
> 
>>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats says:
>>
>>
>>>Some of the packages listed here may be illegal
>>>in your country. This page is not legal advice.
>>
>>Given a package and a country, where does one start in finding out
>>whether it's legal or not?...
> 
> 
> Good question. I always assumed it was just a legal disclaimer/cop-out
> in the full knowledge that everyone and his pet hamster would just smile
> wryly and install the lot.
> 
> "Wink wink, nudge nudge, now get on with things"
It's up to everyone to make his own decision. It's also much better if
the decision is an informed one.

Here is a not so hypothetical situation: there is a consideration to
introduce some public workstations using Linux. There will have to be
media players installed and users, coming from Mac OS X and Windows
land, will expect to be able to view/play the same materials just as
easily. I would rather not have anything illegal or "illegal" on those
workstations. It's important to know then which players and/or codecs
can be installed in Ubuntu (if this distro is chosen and this would be
my preference); or should some RH/SuSE/etc. commercial distro is to be
purchased (supposedly they already paid for whatever licenses and
patents involved).

Sarunas
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