-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/21/2015 10:21 AM, Martin Vahi wrote:
According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing.2C_ownership_and_legislation
the MP3 patents have expired in Europe and will expire by 2018 in U.S. My proposal is to add the MP3 codecs to the openSUSE distribution.
Regards, Martin.Vahi@softf1.com
MP3 is a moving target, there are always newly tweeked versions coming along. MP3 decoding has been patent-free in the US since 22 September 2015. There is simply no reason to avoid MP3 playback applications. MP3 encoding may still be covered through the end of 2017. Microfocus is a British company. The fact that you can reach an Opensuse server from the US should not be the controlling issue here. - -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZQy54ACgkQv7M3G5+2DLI++wCeMNGbHiDlPjZ4QX2BlLBZSFQQ ii8An2uworroAxb5ArNxXEo9Ju3DiMnN =hjN1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org