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Originally posted by devius View PostThe gnome customizations that openSUSE has are just amazing (version 2 at least; still haven't tried gnome 3).
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Originally posted by deanjo View Post
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostAnd therefore, as I said, not in openSUSE. And the legal reasons are not "obvious."
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Originally posted by RealNC View Postthe legal reasons are not "obvious."
1.) Novell is too cheap to buy a patent license and give it away.
2.) Lip service to RMS.
3.) Come on how difficult is it to download and install this?
@ deanjo: there is a big difference between repackaging and forking because you have issues with upstream.
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Originally posted by yogi_berra View PostThe reason is one of the following:
1.) Novell is too cheap to buy a patent license and give it away.
2.) Lip service to RMS.
3.) Come on how difficult is it to download and install this?
@ deanjo: there is a big difference between repackaging and forking because you have issues with upstream.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostOh yeah? Why doesn't it work then? All programs using SDL_mixer or SDL_sound for example, totally lack MP3 support.
Your idea of MP3 support is limited to some media players. MP3 isn't there for just music files. There's tons of other programs and libraries where MP3 has been ripped out from them.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostAt one time openSUSE did offer a license decoder on it's repos. The community however decided that the core distro should be free of such blobs. This is why when you install openSUSE you do not have to click on a "Agree" button to install it after a bunch of licensing mumbo jumbo
Not really, since it is not a fork. It has a distro specific patch applied to it and if the issue lies with the patch oS takes care of it. If the issue lies with the upstream package oS usually not only forwards it upstream but it also ususally is accompanied with the fix for upstream inclusion.
And so it goes.
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