Pete Leigh wrote: > On 01/12/05, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This does it for me: > > > http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html > > Daunting indeed! But see also: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2005-February/msg00040.html > > Judging by that, it seems that GPL decoders (and even encoders) may > be ok with the patent holders (though I suspect you'd want to > confirm it with the source of the info). > > OTOH, short of an explicit and public exemption clause for non-commercial > use, every encouragement for people to move over to ogg is probably > worthwhile :) This is actually not all that helpful. There are a number of people linking libsndfile dynamically to commercial applications. Add code for MP3 then makes it hard for them. I'd also hate to get into a situation where these people have to pay someone else to use the library that I have put so much work into ;-). Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Do I do everything in C++ and teach a course in advanced swearing?" -- David Beazley at IPC8, on choosing a language for teaching
