[packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

[Masaru Nomiya]

Hello,

Thank you for your advice.

In the Message; 

  Subject    : Re: [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player
  Message-ID : <fb07a535-ba23-357f-5c64-93c6ce9403bd at telefonica.net>
  Date & Time: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:48:38 +0100

[CER] == "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas at telefonica.net> has written:

CER>  On 2023-01-22 14:31, Steven Swart wrote:
SS>  > Good day, Hans-Peter, and Packmans!
SS>  > 
SS>  > I have been reliably informed that it may be dangerous to discuss this
SS>  > further on the Packman mailing list, or any of the official forums, from a
SS>  > legal point of view.
SS>  > 
SS>  > So, there is a limit to what I am prepared to say here.
SS>  > 
SS>  > But also, I see no harm in writing up my HOWTO, and sending it privately to
SS>  > any individuals who may be interested.

CER>  I don't know if this is the case now, but in similar cases there
CER>  is no problem with private individuals building, on their own
CER>  machine, problematic code. Or publishing how. The problem
CER>  usually is with providing the binaries ready to install.

I don't really understand the legal issues.

As you suggest, legal interpretations change depending on social
conditions. ....

BTW, the decision to remove the Mesa video codec (and not only
openSUE) is also questionable for me.

Because I think that the encoder/decoder logic is on the video card
and Mesa is simply passing the stream to the video card.

There must be a deeper meaning, but I can't understand it, at the moment.

CER>  AFAIK, that's how it is done with the Nvidia drivers, the rpm
CER>  builds the modules locally on each user machine, they are not
CER>  included in the rpm in binary form.

I didn't realise that...
I've always wondered about nvidia's repo.

Many thanks, indeed.

Regards.

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