On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 19:55 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:20:30 -0400 > > Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> > This is nonsense. There are enough "licenses for the linux > >> > environment". A lot of vendors have licensed MP3 en/decoders that > >> > work on the linux. The point is that there is no licensed open > >> > source mp3 en/decoder. > >> > >> Name 2. > > > > http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ > > http://www.nero.com/enu/downloads-linux4-update.php > > Neither of which address the existing MP3 patent issues, only software > copyright issues. Mind you, Most of these patents are finally > expiring, and the existing court cases have been.... oddm and usually > settled out of court. But there's nothing in those licenses that > protects you from the existing patent claims of Alcatel-Lucent, or of > Texas MP3 Technologies, or those of a Japanese electronics firm I used > to work for. (Ask privately if curious.) One: you, drago01 and Frank are not in fact disagreeing. When drago01 wrote: "This is nonsense. There are enough "licenses for the linux environment". A lot of vendors have licensed MP3 en/decoders that work on the linux. The point is that there is no licensed open source mp3 en/decoder." he was saying more or less what you are. There are F/OSS MP3 decoders. There are MP3 decoders with patent licenses. But there is no F/OSS MP3 decoder with a patent license. Fluendo's decoder is an example of a non-F/OSS decoder which has a patent license. mgp123 is an example of a F/OSS decoder which has no patent license. RPM Fusion can include either type of decoder (though I think in practice it includes only the 'F/OSS but not patent licensed' type), but Fedora can include neither. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
