http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html

You could legally distribute the MP3 codecs with the player for $50,000 and up.

Alternatively, pay $15,000 per year up front and you can distribute at 75¢ per unit.

Similar scheme for DVD. This is how Linspire does it. Linspire isn't the most usable distro out there because of having this ability either. I wouldn't suggest it.

RP

houghi wrote:

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:28:57PM +0200, Kenneth Aar wrote:

I think we are on to a groundbreaking idea here. If users could download 
the dvdplayer and mp3 codecs for a fixed price I can't see how this 
could fail to become the most usable distro out there. Trying to play 
either dvds og mp3 would give you a message telling you that you can 
download from the suse site for x amount of ?. I belive Michael 
Robertson CEO of Linsipre said in LFX magazine no. 68 that they pay 3.5$ 
for each licence for the DVD MPEG playback. So if They are charging 
9.95$ they are good profit.


I wonder if there is a minimum amount to be paid, otherwise I could just
start selling these at say 7.50USD or 6EUR, make money and do something to
the comunity. Wether or not I will prosecute people who copy the software
is a complete other matter. I probably will point my finger, say you are a
naught boy and be very, very upset. 

I would just put the bin files in rpm, deb and tgz files and do it for
all, not just SUSE. As it would be legal, Novell could point to my site.

Mmm. Where could I get info about this?

houghi