At 2:55 AM +0100 on 11/20/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>>It means I should of edited the message before posting it -- that only
>>applies to a free MP3 encoder. There's a certain German company which
>>claims all rights to MP3.
>
>You mean the Fraunhofer institute? They invented it, yes. But I don't think
>it's a for-profit organization.
So far they've sued to take every Open-source MP3 encoder off the market.
As far as their concerned, you need their permission to write an MP3
encoder.
LAME gets around this by distributing patches to the ISO example encoder --
"LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder"
