Hi there,
I'm writing an essay about ISO and the case of the MP3, and thought some of you might help me by dropping me a line or two. I'm really confused now, and hope there is a clear answers somewhere.. I try to understand who owns what of the MP3 standard: ISO/FhG/Thomson , open source, ISO standard and patent-license, how can MP3 be all three? It the reason why FhG suddenly started to wanted money for MP3, that some record company organization "forced" them? I've read somewhere that LAME and the other open sources for MP3 can never be a free legal open source because it depends on a patent. Is this true or was this before the last part of the ISO-standard code was replaced? Was there a story about code that by accident was published, or am I mixing up? Hope you guys know your history :-) Thanks, Lars Kristian Aasbrenn _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [email protected] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
