El Viernes, 19 de Agosto de 2005 00:18, Dan Gordon escribió:
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.
But lame is open source too, just take a look at its website: http://lame.sourceforge.net/ In the first paragraph it says it's LGPL.
This may be true and other distros like Mandrake (now Mandriva) have also stopped packaging anything to do with mp3.
I didn't knew. The last release I used (10.0) had support for it but it has been more than a year since it was out.
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.
Yes, that's the point. I think a good idea would be to patch the different programs to make them show a warning telling the user that the system doesn't have support for MP3 when he tries to open one file in that format and the required codecs are not installed. The warning should also tell the user he may install the MP3 support using YOU. AFAIK, Fedora patched XMMS to show the first warning but didn't explain how to add support for MP3 files. Suse should supply this and with every player it officially supports. Else we'll find more and more people complaining in the forums and in different places for Suse not having MP3 support. I also assume if someone decides to make his own distro based on openSUSE (or perhaps a customization of it) and it's only going to be deployed in Europe or other countries MP3 is not patented, there will be no problem to add out-of-the-box support for it. -- Víctor Fernández Martínez Gabinete de prensa de PoLinux [www.polinux.upv.es]. Usuario de Linux registrado #312284 en http://counter.li.org.