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Incomplete list of applications with some features disabled (for some legal/moral/political reasons) in Fedora. Just for my and your reference.
Name | Disabled features | Reasons | RPMFusion |
SDL_mixer |
mp3 support (using smpeg or libmad) | ? (requires licensing change to (L)GPL) | No |
SDL_sound |
smpeg support is disabled | software patents | No |
agg |
Generic Polygon Clipper algorithm was removed | 'non-commercial' clause | No |
alsa-plugins |
AC-3 encoding / samplerate conversion | software patents / requires ffmpeg | Yes |
audacious-plugins |
aac, alac, mms, tta, wma support | software patents / requires ffmpeg | Yes |
audacity |
ffmpeg support | software patents | Yes |
blender |
ffmpeg, libmp3lame, x264 | software patents | No |
botan |
EC crypto algorithms | software patents | No |
cairo-dock |
??? | undisclosed software patents' related possible issue | Yes |
emacs |
removed Tetris game | possible copyright infringement | No |
fdk-aac |
Incompatible HE-AAC decoding | software patents | Yes |
festival |
OALD dictionary / MBROLA dictionary | 'non-commercial' clause / non-free license | No |
fortune-mod |
offensive fortunes | offensive | No |
fuse-emulator |
ROM files stripped | No ROMs allowed | Yes |
gdm |
disabled root login | care of newbz | n/a |
golang |
some Elliptic curves | software patents | No |
gstreamer1-plugins-bad |
dvb, dvd, faac, siren, dts, and other multimedia functionality | software patents | Yes |
gstreamer1-plugins-ugly |
AMR-NB/WB, x264 and other multimedia functionality | software patents | Yes |
gt |
support for encoding to ac3 was removed | software patents | No |
httpd |
explicitly disabled export ciphers in mod_ssl config | US Laws (?) | No |
httptunnel |
removed some docs | non-free license | No |
k3b |
ffmpeg support | software patents | Yes |
libgcrypt |
Elliptic Curve crypto algorithm | software patents and US Laws (?) | No |
mlt |
ffmpeg support | software patents | Yes |
ogre |
Cg support, non-free/non-distributable assets removed | Cg is proprietary | No |
OpenCV |
SIFT/SURF support | software patents | No |
OpenSSL |
some Elliptic curves | software patents and US Laws (?) | No |
opal |
iLBC support | restrictive license for iLBC | No |
picard |
avcodec from ffmpeg | software patents | Yes |
qmmp |
aac / ffmpeg | software patents | Yes |
ScummVM |
AAC support | software patents | No |
sox-plugins |
amrnb / amrwb support | software patents | Yes |
tcl-snack |
mp3 support | software patents | No |
tcl-trf |
RIPEMD support | non-free license | No |
xemacs |
removed Tetris game | possible copyright infringement | No |
xorg-x11-server |
ctrl-alt-bksp disabled in display manager | care of newbz | n/a |
xpra-codecs |
ffmpeg support | software patents | Yes |
xscreensaver |
barcode stripped, bsod excluded from random list, webcollage uses nonet | offensive words, confuse users, may show porn | No |
foo | bar support | some reason |