13 Sep
2005
13 Sep
'05
22:02
On 14/09/05, Alejandro Forero Cuervo <azul@freaks-unidos.net> wrote:
See the multiple discussions Debian has been having about the legal status of distributing MP3 decoders: http://www.google.com.co/search?q=site%3Alists.debian.org+mp3+patent&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial
If you read them, these discussions confirm that MP3 support could never be included in SUSE Linux OSS. They do raise the possibility that it could be legal to have a non-free (as in GPL) component distributed for free (as in beer). Which is pretty close to the situation we have now, with the additional repositories available. Peter 'Pflodo' FLodin