Hey Johnny, these are things that are definitely important. But I think high quality audio production will not need lossy codecs like mp3 and its proprietary licenses. There is enough license-compatible high quality software out there. If someone needs something on top one must build it himself, i.e. when converting is a kind of need. Regards Tim Am 18. Februar 2016 15:31:21 MEZ, schrieb Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>: >On 02/17/2016 03:42 PM, Tim wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to propose a new SIG for audio production. >> >> This would primarily cover to setup a digital audio workstation. I >> started to build some packages for this like plugins, configurations >and >> a realtime kernel (built from git.centos.org <http://git.centos.org>) >> for a public repository. >> During doing all this stuff I thought of founding a SIG. >> >> I think, CentOS will be the right distribution for this, because it >is >> really stable, reliable and long term supported. >> >> Regards >> Tim > >I think this is an outstanding idea and I support it. > >One thing to keep in mind though is patents that require compensation. >I think mp3's (for example) still fall into that category. > >We can't approve things in the SIG that will violate IP law in the USA. > And please let's not start a discussion on the validity of those laws. >I don't know anyone who thinks they are great or wants them to exist .. >but they do and we have that limitation. > >But, outside of that limitation, I am 100% supportive of an Audio >Production SIG. > >Thanks, >Johnny Hughes > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS-devel mailing list >CentOS-devel at centos.org >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20160218/f463ec89/attachment-0008.html>