Re: [OE-core] dropping commerical flags in mpg123 and lame recipes

2018-04-16 Thread Burton, Ross
I *think* we're good to do this. If you could send a patch with a nice long commit message with sources and comparisons to other distros, then we can have a concrete patch to review and get further advice on. Ross On 15 April 2018 at 09:12, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote: >

Re: [OE-core] dropping commerical flags in mpg123 and lame recipes

2018-04-15 Thread Carlos Rafael Giani
Please note that the Fraunhofer page is from May 2017. These sources suggest that the final patent expired in December 2017: https://madfileformatscience.garymcgath.com/2016/04/05/mp3patent/ https://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/ Fedora now added LAME and mpg123 support,

Re: [OE-core] dropping commerical flags in mpg123 and lame recipes

2018-04-14 Thread Khem Raj
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 1:30 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote: > The lame and mpg123 can be built only if the commercial flag is whitelisted. > > However, the remaining mp3 patents expired in December, and no more > royalties exist. This is why in GStreamer, the mpg123 and