On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 07:18:18AM +0000, Ben Woods wrote: > "On April 23, 2017, Technicolor's mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 > related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has been > terminated." > http://www.mp3licensing.com/ > > It seems that the FreeBSD port for LAME could now have the restriction > removed, allowing the packages to be available for users by default. > > Perhaps the LAME option could also be enabled by default in ffmpeg? > > Thoughts? First of all, IMNAL.
But I fear that it's not that simple. Even if the program was terminated, it doesn't mean that patents are invalidated. And at least one patent from Fraunhofer IIS is still unexpired: US6185539. Also there is uncertainty about Alcatel's USRE39080. -- Alex _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
