On 21 November 2015 at 20:53, John Andersen
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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.
Microfocus is a British company, correct, but SUSE, LLC is registered in the USA https://www.suse.com/company/legal/ Regardless, if we're talking about dencoding, we've been shipping gst-fluendo-mp3 in our Non-OSS repositories since as far back as I can remember I therefore assumed we were talking about encoding codecs, which you quite accurately surmise are problematic until at least 2018 If you seriously wish to discuss this further, the best people to speak to our the openSUSE legal team (opensuse-bar@opensuse.org), debating it here isn't going to solve anything. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org