On Jun 15, 2008, "Eric Padman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fluendo (the company behind gstreamer) has paid a fee to license the > MP3 patents for use with gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3. It is released > under a MIT license but it is not GPL compatible because of the patent > licensing.
It's not even Free Software, because of the patent licensing. Accepting such a license puts you in a position in which, if you enjoy your freedoms, you're breaking an agreement you accepted. If you're not going to abide by the agreement, it would have been more ethical to not accept it in the first place. If you obtain a decoder or encoder from another source that hasn't given in to the patent holders and fed the monster, then it's Free Software, at least until the patent holders obtain a court order that prohibits you from enjoying your freedoms. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
