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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RE: Free as in Freedom?
by poofyhairguy on Fri 23rd Dec 2005 11:30
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Uhh... what does this mean for Ubuntu in terms of providing a Free operating system?
Its an open source codec. Plus is not like Ubuntu is the preacher's sheets with such things- it reads NTFS out of the box and has a restricted repo enabled by default.
This is great news!
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Uhh... what does this mean for Ubuntu in terms of providing a Free operating system?