Re: Last U.S. MPEG-2 Patent Expires on Feb. 13th!

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On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:41 AM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 01/30/2018 01:07 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>> someone asked in ask site [1]
>>
>> Can Fedora consider allowing the package "libmpeg2" into the Fedora
>> family for the next release?
>
> Patent situations are rarely as simple as they appear to be, but we are
> investigating what we can do here.
>

Any updates to the situation? The date has since passed, and even
MPEG-LA has acknowledged MPEG-2's new patent-free situation[1].

It'd be nice to have the ability to create DVDs within Fedora itself.

[1]: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/M2/Pages/PatentList.aspx


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