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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