• balsoft@lemmy.ml
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    28 days ago

    No.

    It has never been a “legal headache”, more of a bit of additional work for distro maintainers (to keep codecs separate from the rest of the distro) and a tiny inconvenience for users (they had to click an additional button after installing the distro).

    Nowadays it’s almost entirely irrelevant. Unless you are in a tiny minority of users who need to play DivX-encoded video (a codec which is 25 years old at this point) for some reason, you don’t need to care at all.

    Basically, this just made life of a few media horder nerds a tiny bit more convenient. Frankly i shouldn’t be typing out a comment this long to even explain it…

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
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      25 days ago

      It has never been a “legal headache”, more of a bit of additional work for distro maintainers (to keep codecs separate from the rest of the distro) and a tiny inconvenience for users (they had to click an additional button after installing the distro).

      Was that ever? Whenever someone whined about codecs back in the day, I would just install mpv or vlc (which were and are in most official distro repos I know of) and call it a day.