[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Has anyone contacted the developer of the algorithm in question?? > If not, this is all shooting in the dark. I wanna know if > Mandrake has contacted this Frauenwhoever to ask if "Free" > decoding software is indeed excluded from possible > litigation??.
-=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=-- From: Haavard Kvaalen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [XMMS-DEVEL] mp3 status ? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Aug 28 13:26:49 2002 +0200 On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Colin Leroy wrote: > What are you going to do about this new mp3 issue ? We are not going to do anything about it. I'm a bit surprised that this has come up now, mp3licensing.com has never listed any exemption for freeware decoders. I suppose that the rates have changed recently. I don't think that they were zero for decoders earlier either, but I'm not sure. The reference that has been used to document freeware decoders exemption from licencing fees is this: <URL:http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/mp3-licensing.html> - H�vard -=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=-- Haavard Kvaalen == lead xmms developer. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
