When I did this demo, the first dialog you mention didn’t pop up. I noticed on the Fedora spec page for this that it was supposed to be there, but in my version, no dice. I did do it with Rawhide two days before Werewolf was released, but it should have been in there by then, don’t you think?

As far as Fedora gaining monetarily, that’s not my concern. My concern is that *only* one option is available, there should be more than one in the name of competition. I’m glad that it’ll be possible to do this in the future, so I’m excited.

Cheers,

Herlo

I think maybe a better approach that fits in better with Fedora’s package management infrastructure is for Fluendo to setup a yum repo, like Adobe did for Flash:

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/06/new_installation_method.html

That way I can get security updates and bug fixes for these codecs the same way I get all my updates. And you’d get yum’s dependency resolution magic if needed as well.

Of course, when yum accesses the fluendo repo, some type of account authentication must happen so that the customer has access only to the codecs he/she has purchased.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/Codeina

Also refer,

http://www.linux.com/feature/120703

Other distributions might point to other repositories which are ok for users in regions that don’t enforce software patents and we were waiting on confirmation from Red Hat legal to do something similar as a alternative. Looks like we can now.

http://lwn.net/Articles/257559/

If you have any other questions, let me know.