Maybe Time for a media iso

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Mi, 2007-01-10 at 20:37 +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> 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.
yes it is royality free ... distributing the codec on a CD without
paying the patent fee to fraunhofer is not ...

ciao
	oli
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20070110/009f4e20/attachment.sig>