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1. silner Fedora users , VLC Media Player

   I used !Fedora completely free, for nearly 4 weeks, but now I've succumbed to RPM Fusion (I needed !VLC and some audio codecs)

   about 5 months ago from IdentiCurse
   • Gerard Ryan Fedora users

     @silner is rpmfusion-free not considered free? #uninformed

     about 5 months ago
   • Justin O'Brien Fedora users , Gerard Ryan

     @grdryn: questionably legal (in the US) freesoftware in it IIRC

     about 5 months ago
   • V.Villenave Fedora users , Free Software & Culture Group , VLC Media Player

     @silner Er, !VLC isn't non-free in any way. Don't mistake stupid sw-patent bullshit legal racket for !FaiF issues. !fedora

     about 5 months ago
   • silner Fedora users , V.Villenave , Gerard Ryan

     @grdryn No - afaik rpmfusion-free is all free - but I installed free and non free - I needed non-free codecs for ffmpeg, cc @vvillenave

     about 5 months ago
   • silner Fedora users , Gerard Ryan

     @grdryn To be honest I probably could have grabbed the few things I needed from non-free without permamently enabling it, but I was lazy

     about 5 months ago
   • Gerard Ryan Fedora users , Justin O'Brien , Richard Fontana

     Thanks @threethirty and @fontana. Coincidentally I installed libre kernel this weekend and removed all nonfree packages/repos (afaik) :D

     about 5 months ago
   • V.Villenave Fedora users

     @silner Again: such libs as lame or x264 _are_ free, they just happen to **freely** re-implement patent-encumbered methods. !fedora

     about 5 months ago
   • silner Fedora users , V.Villenave

     @vvillenave I see what you mean now. I'm not sure on that score. I need to recode some aac files into mp3 and ogg

     about 5 months ago
   • silner Fedora users , V.Villenave

     .. to paste :)

     about 5 months ago
   • silner Fedora users , V.Villenave

     @vvillenave I'm not sure whether that would have needed non-free but I was in a hurry and the command to install both is just as easy ..

     about 5 months ago
   • V.Villenave Fedora users

     @silner Well, we all need to convert files into proprietary formats sometimes, thus we're bound to need patent-encumbered sw :-) Good luck!

     about 5 months ago