Re: [Trisquel-users] Do Fluendo EULA violate freedom to freely redistribute the program?

[gromobir]

Wikipedia says that [t]he various MP3-related patents expire on dates  
ranging from 2007 to 2017 in the U.S. If that really is the case, this  
shouldn't be a problem anymore for Fedora in 2018. Just three more years to  
go for them.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do Fluendo EULA violate freedom to freely redistribute the program?

[tomlukeywood]

i looked up the mpeg-2 patents and aparently the last one expired in April  
1st 2015


is mpeg-2 now a libre codec?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do Fluendo EULA violate freedom to freely redistribute the program?

[legimet . calc]

A better word than libre would be unencumbered. There are libre codecs for  
all of these formats, but the formats are encumbered.


Anyway, according to this page:  
http://www.osnews.com/story/24954/US_Patent_Expiration_for_MP3_MPEG-2_H_264/  
the last patent for MPEG-2 expires in 2018. So 3 more years.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do Fluendo EULA violate freedom to freely redistribute the program?

[lakbk89]

Thank you, Legimet for your timely reply.

» Trisquel's policy is not to recognize software patents.

Out, out, damned software patent! :)

[Trisquel-users] Do Fluendo EULA violate freedom to freely redistribute the program?

[lakbk89]

Trisquel's software repository hosts following Fluendo mp3 decoder plugins:-

[1] gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
[2] gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3

According to Fedora, although Fluendo plugin is free and open source  
software, it is not freely redistributable because of its licensing terms[3].


Here is Fluendo's EULA (End User License Agreement), which I obtained from  
their website[4].


[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Installing_the_Fluendo_MP3_plugin
[4] http://www.fluendo.com/static/documents/Fluendo-EULA-usa.pdf

Is it true that Fluendo EULA violate freedom to freely redistribute the  
program?