On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Frank Murphy
<frankly3d(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:20:30 -0400
> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > This is nonsense. There are enough "licenses for the linux
>> > environment". A lot of vendors have licensed MP3 en/decoders that
>> > work on the linux. The point is that there is no licensed open
>> > source mp3 en/decoder.
>>
>> Name 2.
>
>
http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/
>
http://www.nero.com/enu/downloads-linux4-update.php
Neither of which address the existing MP3 patent issues, only software
copyright issues.
They do have a valid patent license (other example is Google). It
isn't impossible to get a patent license for "the linux plattform".
Having a redistribute able one (so that you can ship open source
software) is where the problems are. Even if fedora could get a
license (via red hat)
it would not apply for people that redistribute it hence it would be non free.