From kde-devel Mon Oct 07 12:36:17 2013 From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:36:17 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Fwd: looking for phonon gstreamer maintainer Message-Id: <20131007123617.GA14983 () videolan ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=138115592102503 On 04 Oct, Daniel Vr=E1til wrote : > in Fedora we have a big interest in keeping phonon-gstreamer alive, namel= y = > because we can't ship phonon-vlc due to legal issues (you know, US compan= y, = > software patents and what not...) and our users would not probably be ver= y = This is a bit untrue, tbh and at the limit of FUD. libVLC and libVLCcore are not more patent-encumbered than gstreamer-core. VLC, phonon-VLC and libVLC are based on modules loaded at runtime, like gstreamer, QT, DShow and other multimedia frameworks (a contrario from all-included players like mplayer) Shipping a version without problematic modules is very doable and has already been done. Best regards, -- = Jean-Baptiste Kempf http://www.jbkempf.com/ - +33 672 704 734 Sent from my Electronic Device >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscrib= e <<