[Fedora-legal-list] libmad
Tom "spot" Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri May 23 12:14:39 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 11:28 +1000, Ding-Yi Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering whether libmad (http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/)
> can be included in fedora. It is GPL, but it is also an implementation
> of MP3.
> So I am not sure whether we should include it in Fedora.
Nope. MP3 is heavily patented, and the patent holder will not give a
grant for us to use it in Fedora.
~spot
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