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[drago01]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:40 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:20:30 -0400
>>>> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> > This is nonsense. There are enough "licenses for the linux
>>>>> > environment". A lot of vendors have licensed MP3 en/decoders that
>>>>> > work on the linux. The point is that there is no licensed open
>>>>> > source mp3 en/decoder.
>>>>>
>>>>> Name 2.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/
>>>> http://www.nero.com/enu/downloads-linux4-update.php
>>>
>>> Neither of which address the existing MP3 patent issues, only software
>>> copyright issues.
>>
>> They do have a valid patent license (other example is Google). It
>
> Which "they"?

Fluendo S.A  i.e the company.

>The fluendo licensing, from reviewing their printed
> license, refers to MIT software licenses. The MIT softwae licenses do
> not cover patents held by 3rd parties.

You are mixing copyright and patent law. If you download the code and
compile it you don't have a license.
The binaries shipped by fluendo are proper licensed though.

> Nero licensing is another story, I'll admit. The restrictions on
> MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 use, declared at
> http://www.nero.com/enu/end-user-agreement.html, are fascinating: I
> assume that Nero has made a vaguely successful commercial agreeement
> for the licenses. But that's the first remotely valid license I've
> seen for Linux use of MPEG under USA patent reestrictions.

Google Chrome? Adobe Flash? Android ? ....