[MeeGo-dev] MeeGo spec - for comment

[Kollberg, Jonas]

> 3rd party apps must only depend on the core components or on things that 
> are included with the app.
> not other (4th party?) things.

One problem that may appear is for example for codec's. 

An example: 
1. An MP3 codec will not be part of the core components of MeeGo (not open-source, licensing...) (correct?).
2. All commercial devices out there will have an MP3 codec pre-installed, even though MP3 is not a required MeeGo package.
3. The compliancy-requirement thus requires a software developer that needs MP3 functionality to licence an MP3 codec, even though it is already on all target systems? 
This is a huge cost for a small ISV...

Any way to work around this?

Thanks,

/Jonas Kollberg

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