Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 23rd Dec 2005 11:09 UTC
The Fluendo people have fully licensed the mp3 audio codec with redistribution rights in place, meaning that future versions of Fedora or Ubuntu will be able to support mp3 out of the box. "In order to improve the GNU/Linux and Unix multimedia experience Fluendo announced today the immediate availability of their MP3 plug-in for the GStreamer multimedia framework. The MP3 decoder is available free of charge both for individual end users and GNU/Linux and Unix distribution makers. In addition to making their licensed binary plug-in available to the public Fluendo also released the source code to this MP3 plug-in under the very permissive MIT license allowing all kind of developers and companies access to it."
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Yep, this sounds dodgy in terms of Free Software compatibility, which is too high a price for me.
Also, it's binary-only, which means that it's useless for non-x86 platforms.
Personally, I'll stick with LAME and other Free Software mp3 decoders. They've been working just fine for MANY YEARS now. I believe this MP3 license thing is a patent issue, but patents are completely ridiculous these days anyway; people get patents for all sorts of crap that they have no legal right to patent, because the USPTO just hands out patents on request without considering them. I don't see any need to take that seriously until they clean up their act.