Hi, I have been waiting all along for someone to post this, but nobody does, so...
As usual Heise got it right: <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/vza-28.08.02-000/> (German). Essentially, the relevant change to the MP3 license was already made 1.5 years ago, but apparently nobody noticed until now. Thomson tolerate violations against their license are far as *de*coders are concerned. That's what the Thomson PR person probably talked about... However, such a statement is not enough for us to keep MP3 decoders in the distribution, I'm afraid. Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯