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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
SDL2_mixer mp3 support (using smpeg or libmad) ? (requires licensing change to (L)GPL) No
SDL_mixer mp3 support (using smpeg or libmad) ? (requires licensing change to (L)GPL) No
SDL_sound smpeg support is disabled, mpglib was removed software patents No
agg Generic Polygon Clipper algorithm was removed 'non-commercial' clause No
alsa-plugins AC-3 encoding / samplerate conversion software patents / requires ffmpeg Yes
asunder ripping to mp3 software patents No
audacious-plugins aac, alac, mms, tta, wma support software patents / requires ffmpeg Yes
audacity ffmpeg support software patents Yes
blender ffmpeg, libmp3lame, x264 software patents Yes
botan EC crypto algorithms software patents No
bountycastle some crypto algorithms software patents No
bountycastle-mail some crypto algorithms software patents No
cairo-dock ??? undisclosed software patents' related possible issue Yes
cryptopp some crypto algorithms software patents No
emacs removed Tetris game possible copyright infringement No
festival OALD dictionary / MBROLA dictionary 'non-commercial' clause / non-free license No
freetype subpixel rendering software patents Yes
fortune-mod offensive fortunes offensive No
fuse-emulator ROM files stripped No ROMs allowed Yes
gfan removed some docs non-free license No
gdm disabled root login care of newbz n/a
golang some Elliptic curves software patents No
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free dvb, dvd, faac, siren, dts, and other multimedia functionality software patents Yes
gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free AMR-NB/WB, MP2, x264 and other multimedia functionality software patents Yes
gt support for encoding to ac3 was removed software patents No
httpd explicitly disabled export ciphers in mod_ssl config US Laws (?) No
httptunnel removed some docs non-free license No
k3b mp3 and ffmpeg support software patents Yes
libgcrypt Elliptic Curve crypto algorithm software patents and US Laws (?) No
libva Intel driver software patents (?) Yes
mlt ffmpeg support software patents Yes
nss Elliptic Curve crypto algorithm software patents and US Laws (?) No
octave-forge some functions / support for video / jogl support non-free license / software patents / ? No
ogre Cg support Cg is proprietary Yes
openssl some Elliptic curves software patents and US Laws (?) No
opal iLBC support restrictive license for iLBC No
oyranos icc profiles were removed software patents No
picard avcodec from ffmpeg software patents Yes
qmmp aac / ffmpeg software patents Yes
sems mp3 support software patents No
scummvm MPEG-2 / AAC support software patents No
sox-plugins amrnb / amrwb support software patents Yes
sweep mp3 support software patents No
tcl-snack mp3 support software patents No
tcl-trf RIPEMD support non-free license No
ushare DLNA support software patents Yes
xemacs removed Tetris game possible copyright infringement No
xorg-x11-server ctrl-alt-bksp disabled in display manager care of newbz n/a
xpra-codecs ffmpeg support software patents Yes
xscreensaver barcode stripped, bsod excluded from random list, webcollage uses nonet offensive words, confuse users, may show porn No
zoneminder ffmpeg support software patents No
foo bar support some reason