MP3 licensing over - can we remove LAME restrictions?

[Matthieu Volat]

On Tue, 16 May 2017 14:44:52 +0000
Ben Woods <woodsb02 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 May 2017 at 1:07 pm, Koichiro IWAO <meta at vmeta.jp> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > FYI, MP3 is coming back to Fedora. I think FreeBSD may able to do that.
> > https://fedoramagazine.org/full-mp3-support-coming-soon-to-fedora/
> >  
> 
> If this analysis is correct, it sounds like the final patents will expire
> by the end of this year?
> 
> http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/
> 
> Regards,
> Ben

Hi, the Fraunhofer institute released a statement about their licensing of the patents:

https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html

That should be it? Now we can wait for aac, h264, h265 ;)

Regards,

-- 
Matthieu Volat <mazhe at alkumuna.eu>
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