[opensuse] About MP3 Patents
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
Le 21/11/2015 19:21, Martin Vahi a écrit :
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
very interesting. Should be asked to legal team jdd -- When will a Label sign her!!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=94&v=BeMk3WRh8QI -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Dear Martin,
On 21 November 2015 at 19:21, Martin Vahi
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
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Dear Martin,
On 21 November 2015 at 19:21, Martin Vahi
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
Well I'm going to assume you're not a time traveller, in which case I think we're going to need to wait until 2018 before we can consider your suggestion, as we quite like distributing software to our community in the USA If you are a time traveller though, WELCOME! Can you please consider open sourcing the software that controls your TARDIS or Delorean or other unlicensed space-time manipulation device, we'd like to be the first Linux distribution with support for paradox inducing trans dimensional travel through time Regards, Richard ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Am 21.11.2015 um 20:08 schrieb Richard Brown:
If you are a time traveller though, WELCOME! Can you please consider open sourcing the software that controls your TARDIS or Delorean or other unlicensed space-time manipulation device, we'd like to be the first Linux distribution with support for paradox inducing trans dimensional travel through time
Regards, Richard ;)
Yes! Will that be on tumbleweed or leap? -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona http://www.daniel-bauer.com room in Barcelona: https://www.airbnb.es/rooms/2416137 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Le 21/11/2015 20:15, Daniel Bauer a écrit :
Am 21.11.2015 um 20:08 schrieb Richard Brown:
If you are a time traveller though, WELCOME! Can you please consider open sourcing the software that controls your TARDIS or Delorean or other unlicensed space-time manipulation device, we'd like to be the first Linux distribution with support for paradox inducing trans dimensional travel through time
Regards, Richard ;)
Yes! Will that be on tumbleweed or leap?
leap, certainly not, but may be it's already in TW :-) jdd NB: 2017/2018 is not so far that we coudn't think about that :-) -- When will a Label sign her!!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=94&v=BeMk3WRh8QI -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----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
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
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