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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi
From:       Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister () gmx ! net>
Date:       2012-10-08 19:08:02
Message-ID: 19879561.1kNLv4q5lI () linux-ydd0 ! site
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Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2012, 19:44:24 schrieb Martin Sandsmark:
> On Monday 8. October 2012 16.52.48 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > For us in Fedora, this would be not just nice, but REQUIRED. We cannot
> > ship
> > anything depending on FFmpeg in Fedora.
> 
> Why not? Don't you ship the Linux kernel (which is a much worse minefield
> patent-wise in practice, people have actually gotten sued for using it,
> unlike ffmpeg)?
> 
> > Now ideally you wouldn't depend on FFmpeg at all! I especially don't
> > understand why you need an AV decoding library to do indexing.
> 
> Because as a modern free desktop environment we are expected to support and
> grok multimedia. And ffmpeg is the best library to do this, it supports
> pretty much every video format out there, and is actively developed.

Please do not make this a thread about things lawyers have to decide. Fact is 
that openSUSE and Fedora do not not ship this kind of software because they 
want to annoy users but because there are reasons.

Sven

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