Cinelerra and VST support

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:59:02 +0100
Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de> wrote:

> We must distiguish IP/licence-issues from conflicts with patents.
> 
> MOST PATENTS THAT TROUBLE LINUX_USERS WORLD-WIDE ARE VOID IN EUROPE!!
> 
> Anybody wonders why the heck those french Mandriva-Folks dare to ship
> a Distro WITH MP3-support o.o.t.b. ???

I do wonder.
Afaik the mp3 patents are not software but patents on algorithms and
are valid in europe, but IANAL.

There also is a difference between mp3 encoding and decoding.
The companies holding patents on the decoding haven't enforced their
patents, that's why there are so many apps that allow you to play back
mp3s by default but not to convert to mp3.

Best regards
	Philipp