On Mar 24, 2008, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Honest question: has anyone who actually ran or distributed mp3 >> decoders implemented in (otherwise-)Free Software ever been stopped >> from doing so in countries where the patent encumbrances of mp3 apply? >> Or have most just been scared of even trying? > Does it really matter? There have been shutdowns due to patent licensing > on MP3 in the past month - why poke the bear with something obvious. Software-only or hardware? Encoders or decoders? MP3 patent holders used to distinguish between these cases. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
