--- "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fluendo's MP3 software is pitched as being licensed > under the MIT X11 > license, but there's a second license some users > have to contend with, a > patent license. MP3 encoders and decoders implement > patented ideas, the > patent is held by Fraunhofer and licensed by a > number of organizations, <big giant snip>
Does a end user need a patent license? If Fluendo has paid for the patent license shouldn't the MIT/X11 code be unencumbered? I personally live in the US but I do not use mp3. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
