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MPEG-LA licensing or the legal hell of USA-based organisations is a risk to small projects like Fedora, so where possible they cut the risk and lay it on users decision to use propriatory licenses.
At least that is how I understood it. I don't know how Arch Linux and Debian (i.e. pacman and APT) don't have that problem.
Uugh I'm so sick of proprietory licenses and software.. all this licensing shit.. I'm just fed up
Part of the problem also has to do with corporate-backed distros. Fully community-driven distros don't suffer from that nearly as much, if at all.
I like Fedora, but stuff like that makes me worry about how it's going to be as time goes on.