Hi, not sure why Spot hasn't chimed in, but yes this
has been run through legal. Tom and I where on the same
email thread with the laywers.

Of course on top of that the fact that they shut down the mp3licensing
operation is a pretty strong sign :)

Christian



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon" <jdisnard@gmail.com>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 4:57:18 PM
> Subject: Re: mp3 encoding now ok
>
> 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@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@gmail.com>
> >> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
> >> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> >> 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@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > Congratulations!!!
> >> >
> >> >> On May 3, 2017, at 1:45 PM, Christian Schaller <cschalle@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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