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(a)redhat.com> 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