audacity

[drago01]

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
isn't impossible to get a patent license for "the linux plattform".
Having a redistribute able one (so that you can ship open source
software) is where the problems are. Even if fedora could get a
license (via red hat)
it would not apply for people that redistribute it hence it would be non free.