On Sunday 21 April 2002 13:52, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: > Le sam 20/04/2002 � 01:37, andre a �crit : > > In some but defiantly not all countries mp3 is protected by patents. If > > you life in a country were mp3 isn't patented the it is completely legal > > to distribute it. > > u're right but the main issue is that mdksoft ship mandrake in USA and > that in USA this is illegal and USA is the first market I think for > mdksoft. > so unless mdksoft provide one version for USA and an other one for the > others country ... ( like for debian with US and non-US ) > it will be perfectbut will cost a lot for mdksoft
In the us mp3 has been patented but there are some problems with that patent, like patenting it way after the fact. Germany is the main problem with mp3 if you asked me
