audacity

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 03:47:55PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:40 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Which "they"? The fluendo licensing, from reviewing their printed
> license, refers to MIT software licenses. The MIT softwae licenses do
> not cover patents held by 3rd parties.

  Did you even read linked page?  Especially paragraphs with "MP3 and patents"
and "The fully licensed binary GStreamer plug-in" headings?

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