Re: gdesklets included?

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I don't understand very much to the legal issues concerning mp3 and don't mind
it is not in Fedora by default. But I wonder, since lame mp3 implementation [1]
is licensed under LGPL, are there any other licensing/legal/other issues
blocking such an implementation?

Thanks,
Martin

References
[1] http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php

Rahul Sundaram napsal(a):
> Brian C. Huffman wrote:
>> Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 16:39:50 Brian C. Huffman wrote:
>>>> 2) I also see in the Release Notes that native mp3 support will be
>>>> included.  Will that also be provided?
>>> No.
>>
>> This probably isn't a fair question since I haven't done my research,
>> but is it for the same reason as before.  I found this tidbit: "Fedora
>> won't ship MP3-capable software because the Fraunhofer
>> Institute's patent license terms are not compatible with the GPL."
>>
>> However, now that Fluendo is providing mp3 decoding for free, is this
>> still the case?
> 
> Yes. It is.  See http://www.fluendo.com/resources/fluendo_mp3.php
> 
> Rahul
> 

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