[Foundation-l] Response to message by thread breaking nazi.

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 00:23:28 UTC 2008


On 19/01/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/01/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The thing that jumps out at me is the unqualified use of "must". This
> > policy would make it impossible to use content for which there are no
> > free formats (not that I can think of any examples of such content at
> > the moment). Is that intentional? A "where possible" could be added to
> > get around it if it's not intentional. (I'm undecided on whether it
> > would be good to completely ban such material or not.)
>
>
> Are there formats that *cannot* be transcoded into something free?

>From time to time. Blu ray format would be rather hard to transcode at
the moment.


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geni




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