David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx>: > IANAL, but I see the one time royalty fee as something that wouldn't > work for a project like lame or any other MP3 software project. The fee > isn't even stated, they just give a range of $50K to $60K USD. And it's > listed for PC software applications. What does that mean? Use their > software/library/sdk? Could the project continue to release MP3 > decoding and encoding code? Does it mean link in an object file that > Fraunhoffer provides? What happens if lame is incorporated in to a > Fedora-derived distribution that then runs on the iPod? > > Dangerous grounds. Maybe. But suppose we actually asked these questions rather than simply speculating? -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list