Re: Regarding the expiration of MP3 patents

Eric Stargardt <[email protected]> Tue, 9 May 2017 12:03:33 +0000 (UTC)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.audio.mp3.lame
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A bit of cynical commentary: I think largely the patent expiration and what it will mean for LAME is the increased number of Windows applications that roll lame_enc.dll into their package installers, and within a few years everyone will be using severely outdated libraries for encoding. It may become necessary to step up our game with regards to education, distribution, and perhaps "this software is terribly old, update now!" nag screens. :)
Eric

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On Tue, 5/9/17, thraex <[email protected]> wrote:

Subject: [Lame-dev] Regarding the expiration of MP3 patents
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 5:01 AM

Hi,

A Fedora user here. I read on the web
the archives of this mailing list
and saw there was a discussion about
the MP3 patent expiration, so I
subscribed to post a link which,
hopefully, will provide some useful
information.

You can take a look at
<https://fedoramagazine.org/full-MP3-support-coming-soon-to-fedora/>.

To summarize, mp3 decoding was included
in Fedora last November but
encoding wasn't permitted at that time.
Now Red Hat legal provided the
permission to ship full mp3 support
i.e. encoding and decoding in
Fedora. In other words, according to
Red Hat's legal team, mp3 is no
longer patent encumbered.

Hope this good news will be helpful in
some way.

Thank you for your work on this great
piece of free software.

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