On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 02:55:06PM -0700, Eric Smith 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? This is true and Spot and Christian's statements are accurate. We are cleared to ship mp3 _decoding_ but not encoding. I'm sorry this announcement wasn't coordinated a little better. I think everyone (understandably) got very excited. > There are MP3-related US patents with expirations in September 2015, > February 2017, April 2017, and December 2017, and some people argue that > the last one affecting decoding may have been the one that expired in > September 2015, but I don't know of anything that changed in 2016. Unfortuantely, I can't comment on the details. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
