Re: MP3 status?

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On 10 November 2016 at 17:06, Eric Smith <spacewar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 10 November 2016 at 16:55, Eric Smith <spacewar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > About three hours ago on Twitter @spotrh tweeted:
>> >     "As of today, MP3 decoding software is permissible in Fedora."
>> > Is this true? If so, could we have a bit more detail?
>>
>>
>> https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2016/11/10/mp3-support-now-coming-to-fedora-workstation-25/
>
>
> Thanks for the link. Howver, after reading that article I still don't
> understand what has actually changed with regard to the legal status of MP3
> decoding.  Has the legal status changed for all MP3 audio decoders, or is it
> something specific to the mpeg123 library?

No idea myself. I hit send accidently before writing the line that I
don't know what has changed but that was probably Spot versus a fake
tweet.



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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