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Why doesn the Fedora project ship the Software that RPM Fusion offers?

April 26, 2017Fedora Fusion offers project RPM ship Software

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Why doesn the Fedora project ship the Software that RPM Fusion offers?

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As Fedora is officially affiliated with Red Hat, Inc. in the Fedora Project, Fedora is effectively bound by the same legal restrictions as Red Hat, as a US company, is bound by. This means in particular that software encumbered with US patents cannot be included in Fedora.