Thanks, hadn't seen that. Ok, well I guess they do deserve some credit for owning up to their patents having expired. I am sure there are others out there who would keep claiming they still had IP in the hope of creating enough uncertainty to get at least some people to keep paying. Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jon" <jdisnard@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 2:59:32 PM > Subject: Re: mp3 encoding now ok > > From the source: > > """ > On April 23, 2017, Technicolor's mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 > related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has > been terminated. > """ > > https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html > > --Jon > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Denise Dumas <ddumas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Congratulations!!! > > > >> On May 3, 2017, at 1:45 PM, Christian Schaller <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> So just wanted everyone to know that we now have the go ahead to ship mp3 > >> encoding in Fedora too. So anyone involved with packaging > >> mp3 encoders can now start migrating them to the Fedora repositories. We > >> are still in the process of evaluating other codecs. > >> > >> Christian > >> _______________________________________________ > >> devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -- > > -Jon Disnard > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
