[CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plnet.rs
Sat Jul 9 20:00:52 UTC 2011


b.j. mcclure wrote:
>> RPMForge is not "the base/official repo", and you are using -ugly- 
>> package for MP3
> Gee, I think I mentioned that in the first line of my post.	
> 
>> Quote:
>> "GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that have good quality and 
>> correct functionality, but distributing them might pose problems. The 
>> license on either the plug-ins or the supporting libraries might not be 
>> how we'd like. The code might be widely known to present patent problems."
> Most everyone is aware of that, however, there is a legal distinction between "using" 
> and "distributing", at least where I live.
> 

This whole thong started from third party repos and @Always Learning 
insisting MP3 is supported from official RHEL/CentOS repos:

Always Learning wrote:
 > On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 20:13 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
 >> But you should also be prepared to help them with install and primary
 >> setup, like adding third party repositories for audio/video codecs
 >> and similar.
 >
 > One of the most useful things I discovered was:-
 >
 > yum install gstreamer*
 >
 > which installs seemingly everything required to run the most popular
 > audio and video applications in Gnome.
 >

That is why I said "RPMForge is not "the base/official repo"" but third 
party repo that needs to be installed in addition and most likely by 
someone other then noob.

Ljubomir



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