MP3 licensing over - can we remove LAME restrictions?

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Matthieu Volat <mazhe at alkumuna.eu> (from Tue, 16 May 2017  
17:31:39 +0200):

> 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/


> 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 ;)


See the comment in the LAME port next to the RESTRICTED line.

Bye,
Alexander.

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