Normally Spot would revel these kind of topics.
Where are you Spot?
Have you run this topic through RH legal?
Presumably one does not need legal sign-off when patents legally
expire, but this topic is significant.
We can now package mp3 encoding software.
That is a big thing.
--Jon
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Christian Schaller <cschalle(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Thanks, hadn't seen that. Ok, well I guess they do deserve some
credit for owning up to
their patents having expired. I am sure there are others out there who would keep
claiming they still had IP in the hope of creating enough uncertainty to get at least
some people to keep paying.
Christian
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon" <jdisnard(a)gmail.com>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 2:59:32 PM
> Subject: Re: mp3 encoding now ok
>
> From the source:
>
> """
> On April 23, 2017, Technicolor's mp3 licensing program for certain mp3
> related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has
> been terminated.
> """
>
>
https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html
>
> --Jon
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Denise Dumas <ddumas(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > Congratulations!!!
> >
> >> On May 3, 2017, at 1:45 PM, Christian Schaller <cschalle(a)redhat.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> So just wanted everyone to know that we now have the go ahead to ship mp3
> >> encoding in Fedora too. So anyone involved with packaging
> >> mp3 encoders can now start migrating them to the Fedora repositories. We
> >> are still in the process of evaluating other codecs.
> >>
> >> Christian
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