>Bastian, Waldo wrote: >> Wrt media codecs: Fluendo is offering free (beer) patent-licensed codecs >> for gstreamer. Mostly free as in speech as well, the source for the MP3 >> codec is available under the MIT license, but there are some >> restrictions due to the patent license. >> See http://www.fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2005-05.html and >> http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=333 > >You mention, Dan, that "RealPlayer" comes with license to play >mpeg". I would just clear that up a bit. There is no need, as I >understand it, to have a RealPlayer installed to get that. All of >the core components (media engine, codecs, plugins, etc) are in >the open source Helix Community >(https://helixcommunity.org).
The OpenSUSE people claim on http://en.opensuse.org/Restricted_Formats that they can not ship the MP3 codecs for patent reasons but that Novell has a contract that allows it to support MP3 through RealPlayer. So I don't get the impression that the open source codecs that the Helix Community distributes include a patent-license. Cheers, Waldo
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