>
> Sorry to bring bad news:
>
> " 7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
> infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
> conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or
> otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not
> excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot
> distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
> License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you
> may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent
> license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by
> all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then
> the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
> refrain entirely from distribution of the Program. " - from the GPL
>
> If you are paying a license fee then you are saying that this software is
> patented. If you say that, then you can't distribute it.
>
hmm, MP3 is not an open format, so i think it just isn't workable to
mix the GPL and MP3. If you get a license, it is illegal to
distribute since you know it is patented. And if you dont get a
license, you will probably be sued by Thomson if you distribute it.
So I'm changing my vote: I suggest changeing the license to something
like MPL or BSD.
The only copyright holders who explicitly appear in the code are:
ISO: remaing ISO code, no license specified
Ron Mayer fft (no license specified)
Apple Computer, Inc.: public domain code
Mark Taylor (votes to change license)
Takehiro TOMINAGA
A.L. Faber: version, VbrTag, get_audio
Free Software Foundation: (timestatus.c, but I added the FSF copyright notice,
and at least 6 people have hacked at that code)
If you contributed something that is not copyrighted/GPLd
and you would like it to be, please let me know.
Mark
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