On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:11:19PM -0300, salsaman wrote:
Please answer the question. I have been personally assured by representatives of the mplayer developers that the ffmpeg code contains *no patented code*. I spent over two years fighting to convince the debian developers that this was true, until they finally accepted it.
The general Fedora package maintainers aren't in a position to decide on legal question, so having this discussion here won't come to any useful conclusion. Only Fedora legal have the authority to decide on legal questions & so they are the people you have to ask about this, not Fedora packagers.
I am very tired of this discussion, and I am not prepared to go through it all again with the fedora legal dept.
Please just point me to just one registered patent that the core of ffmpeg is known to violate. Otherwise you are just spreading FUD.
I'm not spreading FUD, merely directing you to people who actually have the authority to speak for Fedora on legal questions like this.
Daniel