From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Aug 29 16: 9:55 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 E5F5F37B401 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:09:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.knology.net (user-24-214-63-14.knology.net [24.214.63.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FB3943E3B for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:09:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 16230 invoked by uid 8002); 29 Aug 2002 23:09:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO grumpy.dyndns.org) (24.214.34.52) by smtp2.knology.net with SMTP; 29 Aug 2002 23:09:39 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Kelly To: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: RFC: mark MP3 encoders, editors, and players RESTRICTED Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:09:41 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net> <20020829133510.5eed415d.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20020829133510.5eed415d.Alexander@Leidinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208291809.41938.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> 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 Distribution list is getting way out of hand. Not sure that is even proper to send to both ports and multimedia. On Thursday 29 August 2002 06:35 am, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > "Statement from Thomson Multimedia, mp3 Licensing > > In a posting appearing Tuesday August 27, 2002 on the Web site > 'slashdot.org', an individual cited a change in the mp3 license fee > structure of Thomson and Fraunhofer. The writer of the post > apparently misread the mp3 licensing conditions, as Thomson's mp3 > licensing policy has not experienced any change. > > To clarify, since the beginning of our mp3 licensing program in 1995, > Thomson has never charged a per unit royalty for freely distributed > software decoders. For commercially sold decoders -- primarily > hardware mp3 players -- the per-unit royalty has always been in place > since the beginning of the program. Therefore, there is no change in > our licensing policy and we continue to believe that the royalty fees > of .75 cents per mp3 player (on average selling over $200 dollars) > has no measurable impact on the consumer experience." > > Taken from http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/vza-29.08.02-000/ You mean all this fuss is over three-quarters of one cent royalty payments on a $200 hardware item? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message