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Expiration of the final US patents covering MP3 and inclusion of libmad in Leap 42.3
by tsuroerusu＠gmail.com 06 Apr '17

06 Apr '17

Earlier today, I recalled that the final US patents covering the MP3 were due to expire this year, and I did a quick Google search, and found this list at OSNews (Scroll down to get the table): http://www.osnews.com/story/24954/US_Patent_Expiration_for_MP3_MPEG-2_H_264/ It also links to other lists that point to the same date, the 16th of April 2017, for the final US patent related to the MP3 format to expire. I would think that this could allow for Leap 42.3 to legally include libmad, and thereby enable full MP3 support across the distribution without any non-free code (Like Fluendo GStreamer plugins etc.). I must confess I rarely hang out on the mailing lists, but I just thought I would put this idea out there, since we are a good few months away from the release of 42.3, and if I happened to be correct it could be very useful to FINALLY have libmad included in the distribution's own package set. This is especially true since VLC itself is actually included. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-bar+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-bar+owner(a)opensuse.org

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