Cinelerra and VST support

[Luis de Bethencourt]

On Jan 29, 2008 12:42 PM,  <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
> 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
>

Yes in media in general there tends to be a norm that is "let people
playback the files" and when they like them "let's charge them to
create them". Which I believe it is really sad.

Luis de Bethencourt

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