On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Neither of which address the existing MP3 patent issues, only
software
copyright issues. Mind you, Most of these patents are finally
expiring, and the existing court cases have been.... oddm and usually
settled out of court. But there's nothing in those licenses that
protects you from the existing patent claims of Alcatel-Lucent, or of
Texas MP3 Technologies, or those of a Japanese electronics firm I used
to work for. (Ask privately if curious.)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2012-May/001904.html
"We'll revisit decoding in late 2015, barring sanity in US patent law
spontaneously appearing (or the Mayan apocalypse rendering the issue
irrelevant)."
Since the Mayan apocalypse did not render the issue irrelevant (and
that was clearly the more plausible of the two posited scenarios),
we'll have to wait until 2015.
-T.C.