Reintroduce some media codecs into official repos

[nMax]

@OrsoBruno

“sponsored” here means that some openSUSE services are hosted on servers based in the USA (near Provo, maybe?) and those servers are under US Law AFAIK.

@sfalken

As long as things are hosted on SUSE owned infrastructure, the presence of openSUSE as a “Community Project” is not relevant. Especially considering “The openSUSE Project” has no legal standing of its own, in any jurisdiction.

Now that is very fair!

I guess what remains to discuss is what OrsoBruno found

@OrsoBruno

Or maybe I am missing something.
Most decoders are already in OSS, apparently for the same reasons that you are stating here. Check for instance:

And things like why intel-media-driver or the nvidia drivers (as discussed in another thread) can include these remaining patented codecs.

I’m starting to suspect the remaining patents indeed don’t hold much power? As in non-essential or about not used features. That seems like the only explanation to how codecs with some still valid patents are in the repo or how (for example) intel-media-driver can decode h264/h265 without distribution issues…