[$] Fedora, FFmpeg, Firefox, Flatpak, and Fusion

Fedora's objective to become the desktop Linux distribution of choice has
long been hampered by Red Hat's risk-averse legal department, which
strictly limits the type of software that Fedora can ship. Specifically,
anything that might be encumbered by patents is off-limits, with the result
that much of the media that users might find on the net is unplayable. This
situation has improved over the years as the result of a lot of work within
the Fedora project, but it still puts Fedora at a disadvantage relative to
some other distributions. A recent
discussion on video support, though, shines a light on how some surprising
legal reasoning may be providing a way out of this problem; that way
may not be pleasing to all involved, however.