As Neal Gompa pointed out yesterday, the last standards essential patent for AC-3 support expired: https://ac3freedomday.org/ Accordingly, AC-3 is now legally permissible for Fedora and the Fedora Community is working on moving A52dec (liba52) into Fedora as a result. Christian Schaller has a very complete blog post on this topic here: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/03/22/another-media-codec-on-the-way/ Please keep in mind that if you know of something that isn't A52dec/liba52 or aften, that implements AC-3 natively (not just via linking to liba52), please let Fedora Legal take a look at it (either via emailing legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, emailing this list, or blocking the Review Ticket against FE-Legal). We just need to sanity check it quickly before letting it in. Thanks, ~tom == Red Hat _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
