Normally Spot would revel these kind of topics. Where are you Spot?
Have you run this topic through RH legal? Presumably one does not need legal sign-off when patents legally expire, but this topic is significant. We can now package mp3 encoding software. That is a big thing. --Jon On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Christian Schaller <cscha...@redhat.com> wrote: > Thanks, hadn't seen that. Ok, well I guess they do deserve some credit for > owning up to > their patents having expired. I am sure there are others out there who would > keep > claiming they still had IP in the hope of creating enough uncertainty to get > at least > some people to keep paying. > > Christian > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jon" <jdisn...@gmail.com> >> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" >> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 2:59:32 PM >> Subject: Re: mp3 encoding now ok >> >> From the source: >> >> """ >> On April 23, 2017, Technicolor's mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 >> related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has >> been terminated. >> """ >> >> https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html >> >> --Jon >> >> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Denise Dumas <ddu...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > Congratulations!!! >> > >> >> On May 3, 2017, at 1:45 PM, Christian Schaller <cscha...@redhat.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> So just wanted everyone to know that we now have the go ahead to ship mp3 >> >> encoding in Fedora too. So anyone involved with packaging >> >> mp3 encoders can now start migrating them to the Fedora repositories. We >> >> are still in the process of evaluating other codecs. >> >> >> >> Christian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> > _______________________________________________ >> > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> >> >> >> -- >> >> -Jon Disnard >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org -- -Jon Disnard _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
