Re: MP3 + Patent issues in Debian

2007-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/16/07 03:01, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > While talking about Debian in a LUG meet, someone pointed out that > Debian's distributions could play MP3s out-of-the-box (Etch > included). This is unlike the Fedora/Ubuntu policy of n

Re: MP3 + Patent issues in Debian

2007-07-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:31:25PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > While talking about Debian in a LUG meet, someone pointed out that > Debian's distributions could play MP3s out-of-the-box (Etch > included). This is unlike the Fedora/Ubuntu policy of not making > available the (supposedly) patent e

Re: MP3 + Patent issues in Debian

2007-07-16 Thread Joe Hart
On Monday 16 July 2007 10:01:25 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > While talking about Debian in a LUG meet, someone pointed out that > Debian's distributions could play MP3s out-of-the-box (Etch > included). This is unlike the Fedora/Ubuntu policy of not making > available the (supposed

MP3 + Patent issues in Debian

2007-07-16 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian users, While talking about Debian in a LUG meet, someone pointed out that Debian's distributions could play MP3s out-of-the-box (Etch included). This is unlike the Fedora/Ubuntu policy of not making available the (supposedly) patent encumbred codecs (decoders, at least) by default, on