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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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mpglib was removed | software patents | no |
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Generic Polygon Clipper algorithm was removed | 'non-commercial' clause | no |
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ffmpeg support | software patents | no (review request in process) |
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ac3dec utility was removed | software patents | no |
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mp3 support | software patents | no |
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ripping to mp3 | software patents | no |
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aac, alac, mms, mp3, tta, wma support | software patents | yes |
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mp3 and ffmpeg support | software patents | yes |
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ffmpeg, libmp3lame, x264 | software patents | yes |
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EC crypto algorithms | software patents | no |
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some crypto algorithms | software patents | no |
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some crypto algorithms | software patents | no |
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some crypto algorithms | software patents | no |
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removed Tetris game | possible copyright infringement | no |
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OALD dictionary / MBROLA dictionary | 'non-commercial' clause / non-free license | no |
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bytecode interpreter, subpixel rendering | software patents | yes |
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offensive fortunes | offensive | no |
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ROM files stripped | No ROMs allowed | yes |
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removed some docs | non-free license | no |
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disabled root login | care of newbz | n/a |
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support for SRP | software patents | no |
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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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mp3 and ffmpeg support | software patents | yes |
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Elliptic Curve crypto algorithm | software patents and US Laws (?) | no |
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mp3 support | software patents | yes |
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jbig support | software patents | no |
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Elliptic Curve crypto algorithm | software patents and US Laws (?) | no |
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sntp utility | non-free license | no |
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mp3 playback | software patents | no |
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some functions / support for video / jogl support | non-free license / software patents / ? | no |
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Cg support | Cg is proprietary | yes |
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smpeg support | software patents | no |
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ACSS crypto algorithm | software patents, possible DMCA violation | no |
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Elliptic Curve, IDEA, MDC-2, RC5 crypto algorithms | 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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IDEA crypto algorithm | software patents | no |
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avcodec from ffmpeg | software patents | yes |
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mp3 and ffmpeg | software patents | yes |
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iLBC support / mp3 support | restrictive license for iLBC /software patents | no |
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mp3 and mpeg2 support | software patents | no |
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mp3 support | software patents | no |
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mp3 support | software patents | no |
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mp3 support | software patents | no |
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RIPEMD support | non-free license | no |
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DLNA support | software patents | yes |
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mp3 support | software patents | no |
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removed Tetris game | possible copyright infringement | no |
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mp3, ffmpeg and other multimedia | software patents | yes |
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mp3 playback | software patents | no |
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mp3, ffmpeg and other multimedia | software patents | yes |
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ctrl-alt-bksp disabled in display manager | care of newbz | n/a |
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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 |
