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Would it be feasible for a driver patch to be shared via e.g. an anonymous torrent, with a checksum (to certify authenticity) held somewhere more reliable, like
by mft_ 10mo ago
Would it be feasible for a driver patch to be shared via e.g. an anonymous torrent, with a checksum (to certify authenticity) held somewhere more reliable, like GitHub?
- mikepurvis 10mo agoSounds like what we used to go through years ago with sound editors that had to have a separate button for downloading and inserting the MP3 encoder because the Fraunhofer license prohibited it from being directly distributed with the software.
- tucnak 10mo agoThis is still the case in Audacity... doesn't rip mp3's out the box.
- cartoonworld 10mo agoSure it does, it just always relied on external encoders. I use audacity for recording vinyl occasionally, but for CD audio I have a bunch of cli scripts. Much easier.
- bdavbdav 10mo agoIf those external encoders are there. That’s the “non-free” checkbox / package in Linux.
- account42 10mo agoNo, with MP3 the encoders/decoders source code was always available in the normal source code repositories (e.g. FFMPEG) - the problem was just with binary distributions.
- binkHN 10mo agoPost the patch in a country that doesn't care? I remember OpenBSD used to do something similar with encryption to get around US laws.
- rtpg 10mo agoI think Canonical did this with codecs for a long time too, behind a prompt
- extraduder_ire 10mo agoLinux mint didn't need to ask due to being released from France, where software patents did not apply.