Re: release notes: first draft

["Edward Hervey" <bilboed gmail com>]

Hi,

On 3/7/06, Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le mardi 07 mars 2006 à 14:50 +0000, Edward Hervey a écrit :
> > > Given the goal of gnome to be a free desktop I think the description
> > > "take advantage of" is misleading. It allows third party vendors to
> > > "take advantage of" users. It allows users to be taken advantage of.
> > >
> > >
> > > And its hardly a feature from a software freedom perspective.
> >
> >   revised version 0.3.a-beta-pre25-coma-7:
> >
> >   "Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where
> > patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to
> > offer support for licensed codecs for which no legal plugins are
> > available."
> >
> >   Does that make more clear the *freedom of choice* offered to users ?
>
> It's a bit misleading, since depending on the application licence, these
> 3rd party plugins might or might not legal to use if I'm not mistaken.

  It will only be illegal to ship those applications *together* with
those plugins. But if you download those plugins afterwards, no
issues. GStreamer was developed with those issues in mind.

  Edward

>
> Christophe
>
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Edward Hervey
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