<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Richard Vickery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com" target="_blank">richard.vickeryrv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">For F18, it appears that the Audacity mp3 build is broken - it won't install - and mp3 support is rather important to me; is it possible to get this particular build working?</div><br></blockquote><div>
<br>MP3 players, and the DVD library libdvdcss, represent legal problems for US developers. MP3 is patented, and there are *no* licenses available for Linux environments. libdvdcss runs into the protection of digital rights software in the DMCA, and has even nastier legal protections on it for US developers.<br>
<br>The result is that there are worldwide software repositories such as rpmfusion for MP3, MP4, and a lot of other really useful software, and freshrpms for the libdvdcss that are publicly available. *BUT* you need it to be legal in the country you're downloading *to* to be able to use them without threat of prosecution. There's also the Penguin Liberation Front for a few components with weird licensing that others haven't been able to resolve usable licenses for.<br>
<br>In order to use MP3 legally, I'm assuming you're in a country without that bane of development everywhere, software patents, and can legally use <a href="http://rpmfusion.org/">http://rpmfusion.org/</a>. If so, enjoy!!!!<br>
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