[ Bastian, Waldo ] > 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.
This code may only be used if you obtain a patent license yourself. The MIT license was chosen because it allows for this additional restriction. The restriction is incompatible with all copyleft-style licenses, for example the GPL or the LGPL. This means the code can only be used in applications that either have a proprietary license or that can be relicensed to a proprietary license (e.g. MIT, BSD, etc). Olaf -- Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility co-maintainer, open standards accessibility networker, Protestant theology student and webmaster of http://accessibility.kde.org/ and http://www.amen-online.de/
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