Most distros have a checkbox during the installer that will add non-free components. It’s a separate EULA you need to agree to so they can’t do it for you.
You may not care, but the distro provider’s legal team absolutely cares about not getting sued for automatically bundling components with an incompatible license agreement
The non-free components I’ve seen on installers are usually for Nvidia’s proprietary drivers. Not codecs.
Sounds like legal panic if you ask me. There’s been no precedent for litigation on use of licensed codecs which most have been using either way prior in their builds and packages.
Most distros have a checkbox during the installer that will add non-free components. It’s a separate EULA you need to agree to so they can’t do it for you.
You may not care, but the distro provider’s legal team absolutely cares about not getting sued for automatically bundling components with an incompatible license agreement
The non-free components I’ve seen on installers are usually for Nvidia’s proprietary drivers. Not codecs.
Sounds like legal panic if you ask me. There’s been no precedent for litigation on use of licensed codecs which most have been using either way prior in their builds and packages.
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They have never gone after said distros all those many many years they have bundled licensed codecs in their ISOs. What changed?
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