MP3 licensing over - can we remove LAME restrictions?

[Mathias Picker]

Am Freitag, den 19.05.2017, 13:29 +0200 schrieb 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-fedo
> > > > ra/
> > > > 
> > > 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.
> 

I *love* this kind of thoroughness!

:) Mathias

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