[Bug 888224] Review Request: libshairport - emulates an airport express

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Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888224

Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Ken Dreyer <ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com> ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> > is an ALAC decoder from 2005. What's the current legal situation here with regard to Apple having published their codec as Open Source Software last year?
> 
> I don't know about this, can anyone help?

The ASL does contain a patent grant to users of the official ALAC code [1].
However, alac.c is a third-party implementation developed back in 2005, so I
don't know what the status is. I'm blocking FE-LEGAL to see what the experts
say. Is this alac.c [2] ok to have in Fedora? Or is it infringing on any Apple
patents?

[1] http://lists.apple.com/archives/coreaudio-api/2011/Oct/msg00150.html
[2] https://github.com/amejia1/libshairport/blob/master/src/alac.c

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