Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 17:31:39 +0200 From: Matthieu Volat <mazhe@alkumuna.eu> To: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> Cc: Koichiro IWAO <meta@vmeta.jp>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MP3 licensing over - can we remove LAME restrictions? Message-ID: <20170516173139.0d9fdf12@freedom.alkumuna.eu> In-Reply-To: <CAOc73CCuu2JM%2BxwQi%2BkvvDjaMbEoGn=Yipn9e-FzBUjngiC_Jw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20170503221559.Horde.nx5YsVcChhVVY51_pAj5KWu@webmail.leidinger.net> <0101015beb88e70e-f7de89b3-a406-4309-95ec-454540abb67b-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.com> <CAOc73CCuu2JM%2BxwQi%2BkvvDjaMbEoGn=Yipn9e-FzBUjngiC_Jw@mail.gmail.com>
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--Sig_/I9rM8KMNuJtpDKy8WQY6Rkl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 16 May 2017 14:44:52 +0000 Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 9 May 2017 at 1:07 pm, Koichiro IWAO <meta@vmeta.jp> wrote: >=20 > > Hi, > > > > FYI, MP3 is coming back to Fedora. I think FreeBSD may able to do that. > > https://fedoramagazine.org/full-mp3-support-coming-soon-to-fedora/ > > =20 >=20 > If this analysis is correct, it sounds like the final patents will expire > by the end of this year? >=20 > http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/ >=20 > Regards, > Ben Hi, the Fraunhofer institute released a statement about their licensing of = the patents: https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html That should be it? Now we can wait for aac, h264, h265 ;) Regards, --=20 Matthieu Volat <mazhe@alkumuna.eu> --Sig_/I9rM8KMNuJtpDKy8WQY6Rkl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQTxuiqPSkQnzRDOjsP4Q0N5gpmLfgUCWRsbWwAKCRD4Q0N5gpmL fmf8AJ49MU30z5uMpOwuZey5Jxr2fyCdBwCgzrollI/JAtgVjUY4fKanilYjSTM= =9d7O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/I9rM8KMNuJtpDKy8WQY6Rkl--
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