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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 |
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mp3 support (using smpeg or libmad) | ? (requires licensing change to (L)GPL) | No |
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smpeg support is disabled | software patents | No |
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Generic Polygon Clipper algorithm was removed | 'non-commercial' clause | No |
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AC-3 encoding / samplerate conversion | software patents / requires ffmpeg | Yes |
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aac, alac, mms, tta, wma support | software patents / requires ffmpeg | Yes |
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ffmpeg support | software patents | Yes |
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ffmpeg, libmp3lame, x264 | software patents | No |
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EC crypto algorithms | software patents | No |
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??? | undisclosed software patents' related possible issue | Yes |
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removed Tetris game | possible copyright infringement | No |
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Incompatible HE-AAC decoding | software patents | Yes |
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OALD dictionary / MBROLA dictionary | 'non-commercial' clause / non-free license | No |
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offensive fortunes | offensive | No |
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ROM files stripped | No ROMs allowed | Yes |
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disabled root login | care of newbz | n/a |
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some Elliptic curves | software patents | No |
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dvb, dvd, faac, siren, dts, and other multimedia functionality | software patents | Yes |
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AMR-NB/WB, x264 and other multimedia functionality | software patents | Yes |
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support for encoding to ac3 was removed | software patents | No |
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explicitly disabled export ciphers in mod_ssl config | US Laws (?) | No |
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removed some docs | non-free license | No |
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ffmpeg support | software patents | Yes |
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Elliptic Curve crypto algorithm | software patents and US Laws (?) | No |
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ffmpeg support | software patents | Yes |
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Cg support | Cg is proprietary | Yes |
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some Elliptic curves | software patents and US Laws (?) | No |
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iLBC support | restrictive license for iLBC | No |
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icc profiles were removed | software patents | No |
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avcodec from ffmpeg | software patents | Yes |
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aac / ffmpeg | software patents | Yes |
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AAC support | software patents | No |
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amrnb / amrwb support | software patents | Yes |
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mp3 support | software patents | No |
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RIPEMD support | non-free license | No |
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removed Tetris game | possible copyright infringement | No |
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ctrl-alt-bksp disabled in display manager | care of newbz | n/a |
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ffmpeg support | software patents | Yes |
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barcode stripped, bsod excluded from random list, webcollage uses nonet | offensive words, confuse users, may show porn | No |
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ffmpeg support | software patents | No |
| foo | bar support | some reason |
