Re: Default Installation of Multimedia Codecs on Linux

[James Vasile <vasile softwarefreedom org>]

At Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:57:08 +0530,
Sankar P wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know this is kind of off-topic for Gnome legal list. But I believe
> it will be good to get a opinion from the members of this list on a
> proposal that we discussed among some members of openSUSE.
> 
> The proposal is to install multimedia codecs based on the location of
> the user . the complete description can be read at
> 
> http://psankar.blogspot.com/2010/01/installation-of-multimedia-codecs-based.html
> 
> Please let us know your comments/opinions by clicking on the feedback
> link in the blog post.
> 
> Thank you.

Sankar,

If openSUSE is looking for legal advice related to distributing
multimedia codecs, a good start might be to contact the Software
Freedom Law Center.  To get the project started, an appropriate
project rep would send a message to help softwarefreedom org 

Regards,
James