Hi, not sure why Spot hasn't chimed in, but yes this has been run through legal. Tom and I where on the same email thread with the laywers.
Of course on top of that the fact that they shut down the mp3licensing operation is a pretty strong sign :) Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jon" <jdisn...@gmail.com> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 4:57:18 PM > Subject: Re: mp3 encoding now ok > > 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 > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
