• Auli@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Independent then why did the RH lawyers make them remove the codecs from the distro earlier this year.

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      1 year 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.