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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Subject: Re: RFC:  mark MP3 encoders, editors, and players RESTRICTED
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:21:05 +0000 (UTC)
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Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> wrote:

> The Fraunhofer Institute seems to have discontinued the exception it was
> making for free software.

Hmm.  Article on heise.de says that those licensing conditions were
in fact changed one and a half years ago.  While that doesn't undo
the legal problem, it kind of takes the urgency off this issue.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/vza-28.08.02-000/

(Well, they also say there that Ogg Vorbis is under GPL, which is a
crap.)
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de


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