On Sep 7 19:03, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > >>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > Is it safe to assume that we don't get into trouble due to patenting, > > intellectual property, or any other related crap? > > Well this is the file COPYRIGHT from the source distribution, so I think yes: > > > libmad - MPEG audio decoder library > Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Underbit Technologies, Inc. > > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version.
I'm not talking about the licensing of libmad, I'm talking about Fraunhofer and MP3, for instance. Is it safe to have decoders and/or encoders in the distro, just because they are OSS? As I said, I don't like the idea to get into trouble... Corinna P.S.: I refrain from elaborating what I think about software patents and IP as well as patenting in general because we have to think of the children. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc.
