Maybe Time for a media iso

[Carsten Aulbert]

Oliver Grawert wrote:

> you can do that if you live on the moon or mars or anywhere else where
> patent lawyers dont get you ;) its simply illegal to promote mp3
> decoding without paying for the patent. lots of the codecs have similar
> problems ... 


I might be wrong, but at least in the case of mp3 I'm pretty sure, that
decoding is royalty free (moneywise), only encoding to mp3 is a problem.

For most other codecs it's the same, decoding is free to promote it,
encoding is the way to get revenue.

Cheers

Carsten