2008/11/12 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:23:19PM +0000, Thomas White wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:15:44 +0800 > > Ray Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > We are sorry that currently we have to remove all the images on the > > > download server of Openmoko. http://downloads.openmoko.org/release/ > > > > Erk... are you able to give any more details about the exact reasons? > > He did: > > > Subject: RESEND(Wrong Thread): IMAGE/MP3 licensing issue. > > > (...) > > > > We will make another stable release as soon as possible. At the mean > > time, we could rebuild those old releases without mp2/mp3. However, > (...) > > I can give you the rest: > http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html > > http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu/
I understand the MP3 patent issue reasonably well, but couldn't OM use LAME?[1] Users could be asked to compile the software themselves (providing it wasn't made terribly difficult), if that's an issue... Or have I missed the point? (Obviously, Vorbis and FLAC are preferable to MP3, but for those people - and I'm sure there are lots of them - who have MP3-encoded media, a decoder is still needed, even if only to transcode to a freer format.) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAME _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
