From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 27 23:35:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8264337B400; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from comp.chem.msu.su (comp-ext.chem.msu.su [158.250.32.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029A843E3B; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:35:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yar@comp.chem.msu.su) Received: (from yar@localhost) by comp.chem.msu.su (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7S6ZOY22450; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:35:24 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yar) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:35:23 +0400 From: Yar Tikhiy To: Trevor Johnson Cc: ports@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org, cpiazza@freebsd.org, dburr@freebsd.org, demon@freebsd.org, dirk@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 Subject: Re: RFC: mark MP3 encoders, editors, and players RESTRICTED Message-ID: <20020828103523.A21676@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net>; from trevor@jpj.net on Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:58:53AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. Could you provide a pointer to the details? Has using any piece of the mp3 technology in an application without having paid the royalty become illegal? If it's true, many free audio programs will have to die, which will render the corresponding ports absolutely useless. -- Yar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message