Re: MP3 and the OLPC

2008-01-14 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Jan 14, 2008, at 18:03 , Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: I'm trying to understand the legal state of MP3 versus the OLPC platform. Looking at this wiki page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Restricted_Formats Seems to indicate that handling MP3 requires a license, and thus an MP3 decoders

MP3 and the OLPC

2008-01-14 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I'm trying to understand the legal state of MP3 versus the OLPC platform. Looking at this wiki page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Restricted_Formats Seems to indicate that handling MP3 requires a license, and thus an MP3 decoders is not packaged by default, yet I know I can open and play

Re: MP3 and the OLPC

2008-01-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 15:03 -0800, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: I'm trying to understand the legal state of MP3 versus the OLPC platform. Looking at this wiki page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Restricted_Formats Seems to indicate that handling MP3 requires a license, and thus an MP3

Re: MP3 and the OLPC

2008-01-14 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
On 1/14/08, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be shipped on the OLPC platform, code and binaries must be a few things: 1) Open Source 2) Free of known patent encumbrance 3) Redistributable/transferrable You will notice that the XO laptop ships with support for three audio codecs