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Hi Warren,
I recently asked to join the encoder list just to ask this question.
I sent it to Mark Taylor at LAME 2 weeks ago and received no
reply, so I am sending it to other developers at SourceForge, and I am sending
it to you. I have looked through the archives back to July 2002 and don't
see anything relevant in the subject titles. Any advice would be
appreciated:
>I am in a band (in the US) and would like to put some of our music up on the Web. One member of our group is a very committed geek and he is opposed to the use of mp3 because he says it benefits Thomson/Fraunhofer and they are big bad meanies or something like that. However, I have read that mp3 is actually open-source and the use of some codecs/encoders such as LAME do not require the payment of royalties. I can encode using lame_win32 with Goldwave, but am not allowed to distribute our material unless I can prove to the geek that it won�t enrich the aforementioned meanies. I�m not a lawyer or a geek and I probably have some of the relevant details screwed up, but I would like to know if there is a legal way to use mp3 and mollify the geek. Ogg is of course OK, but many non-geeks are afraid of it, although I am aware that many popular players already decode it or have plug-ins available. Thanks for any advice. Dale Ott |
