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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2005-12-23
Their code is under the MIT license, so normally that would mean that anybody would be able to use it under the terms of the MIT license. However, the patent still applies doesn't it? I would like to know if it's allowed to distribute (binary) versions of their plugin without signing the agreement they offer to Linux distributions.
Somehow they present it that way, but that doesn't seem logical (since that would be a loophole in the MP3 patent licensing policy that would allow anyone to distribute MP3 support without paying for the patent).
Could somebody shed some light on this issue?