Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:56:25 +0200 From: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@freebsd.org> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org, cpiazza@freebsd.org, dburr@freebsd.org, demon@freebsd.org, esk@ira.uka.de, greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org, knu@freebsd.org, leo@florida.sarang.net, markp@freebsd.org, nakai@freebsd.org, patrick@freebsd.org, petef@freebsd.org, vanilla@freebsd.org, yar@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: mark MP3 encoders, editors, and players RESTRICTED Message-ID: <20020828165625.GA15609@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> In-Reply-To: <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net> References: <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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Hi! On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:58:53AM -0400, Trevor Johnson wrote: > The Fraunhofer Institute seems to have discontinued the exception it was > making for free software. AFAIK nothing really has changed recently in regard to the licensing policies of Thomson. The changes the slashdot article is referring to happened about one and a half year ago. The ports you made changes to fall in three categories: - mp3 utilities (like easytag, cd2mp3, ...) - mp3 decoders - mp3 encoders The first category isn't subject of the license anyway. The second category shouldn't be a problem. No single step has been taken to get any license fee for mp3 decoders yet. Probably the only category having a problem is the last one. The FHI (Frauenhofer Institut) seems to insist on the license here. Anyway, IMHO we don't have a real legal problem here. But perhaps your motivation was a political one (let's stop mp3 in favour of ogg 8-)... Regards Dirk -- Dirk Froemberg FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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