On Thursday 18 August 2005 5:58 pm, Víctor Fernández Martínez wrote:
Who says MAD is not GPL?
Ok mad is gpl but most people are not aware of it. Most of the people you might talk to in North America only know about lame.
http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/
Just read the 3rd paragraph:
"MAD has the following special features: [...] available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
Perhaps the problem is related to the MP3 patent there's in the USA. AFAIK that's why Fedora removed it. Suse is being developed in Europe, but Novell is USA-based so perhaps that's the problem. If they want to sell Suse in USA they may:
This may be true and other distros like Mandrake (now Mandriva) have also stopped packaging anything to do with mp3.
a) remove support for MP3
or
b) pay millons of dollars to the MP3 patent holders to get a license
Obviously there's no choice. Releasing a version for the USA without MP3 support and another for the rest of the world with MP3 support could be an option but it's much harder and more costly than just providing MP3 support packages through YaST Online Update.
Exactly and that is why you wont find anything to do with mp3 in the main stream of any recent distro. But it is usually not to hard to have support for it if you really want it. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Thu Aug 18 18:11:07 EDT 2005 6:11pm up 2 days 5:05, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.06 Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -- Eric Hoffer