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Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd(www.hadess.net)

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Independent then why did the RH lawyers make them remove the codecs from the distro earlier this year.

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Because Red Hat is a distributor and sponsor of Fedora. The Fedora project is made up of around 30% Red Hat employees. This makes them liable if Fedora starts shipping codecs that are in violation of patent law.

OpenSuse also removed the codecs and they aren’t affiliated with Red Hat at all.

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