RE: [MP3 ENCODER] C++ LAME?

[Osamu Shigematsu]

> > I'm in Australia where Fraunhoffer and their
patents are
> irrelevant :-).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Erik
>
> Yeah , but what if someone in Germany wants to
use it ?
> He can not , unless he breaks the law.
> The same is true for the most(?) other places
too.
> So your library would be illegal to use anywhe
re except a few places.
> But then I could be totally wrong :-)
>
> david balazic

Here in Japan, we may need patent license even f
ree encoder. ($15000 every year)

By the way, I found following patent free sound
format about 2 days ago.

        http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/

What's this?

If this was really patent free and open source
(GPLd/LGPLd), I hope I can port it to Mac.

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