From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 28 9:58:25 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 55BAB37B649; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emmi.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (emmi.physik.TU-Berlin.DE [130.149.160.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D66043F15; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:56:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ibex@emmi.physik.TU-Berlin.DE) Received: from emmi.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (localhost.physik.TU-Berlin.DE [127.0.0.1]) by emmi.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (8.12.5/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7SGuQ9v002138; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:56:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ibex@emmi.physik.TU-Berlin.DE) Received: (from ibex@localhost) by emmi.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g7SGuPCE002137; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:56:25 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:56:25 +0200 From: Dirk Froemberg To: Trevor Johnson 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> References: <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 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-ports" in the body of the message