Red Hat 8.0 CD problem

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Mon Oct 7 17:37:42 PDT 2002


tin is in 7.3 on my servers

The problem was with mp3 encoding licensing issues.... somehow the
software involved in decoding these formats is in danger of falling under
the protection...  Not RedHat's call....

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, augie wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:17:54PM -0700, E Frank Ball wrote:
> > Tin and fvwm are both gpl, but I guess they don't fit with the gnome/kde
> > gui everything paradigm the redhat seems to be going for.  Just one more
> > reason to switch to Debian.  And fvwm in Redhat 7.3 was broken anyway.
>
> interestingly enough i don't see tin in the new mandrake 9.0 packages
> either.
>
> ps...thanks eric for the mandrake iso's on the mirror. :)
>
>  -augie
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