▲ 375 ▼ Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd (www.hadess.net) submitted 3 years ago by alounoz@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml 96 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) Independent then why did the RH lawyers make them remove the codecs from the distro earlier this year. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cobra89@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago Because Red Hat is a distributor and sponsor of Fedora. The Fedora project is made up of around 30% Red Hat employees. This makes them liable if Fedora starts shipping codecs that are in violation of patent law. OpenSuse also removed the codecs and they aren't affiliated with Red Hat at all. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago Because Red Hat is a distributor and sponsor of Fedora. The Fedora project is made up of around 30% Red Hat employees. This makes them liable if Fedora starts shipping codecs that are in violation of patent law. OpenSuse also removed the codecs and they aren't affiliated with Red Hat at all. permalink fedilink source parent