[lug] redhat beta musings

[John Hernandez]

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If you're concerned, I believe source code is available for many of
these projects.

http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/

Andrew R. Diederich wrote:
| Lots of players will still work, I suspect.  Looks like
| http://www.xmms.org/, for example, still exists.
|
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| Andrew
|
| On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, j davis wrote:
|
|
|>well, shit...i have 20 gigs of trash now. Can i still download
|>mplayer or xmms to play mp3 on redhat? Maybe a mp3 to ogg tool?
|>
|>blindsided,
|>jd
|>
|>
|>>From: "Peter Hutnick" <peter-lists at hutnick.com>
|>>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
|>>To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
|>>Subject: Re: [lug] redhat beta musings
|>>Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:00:29 -0600 (MDT)
|>>
|>>
|>>>As far as I knew, the patents only covered the encoders.  I've never
|>>
|>>heard
|>>
|>>>about patents covering the decoders...  I see the reference to slashdot.
|>>>
|>>>The mp3 page says that 0.75 covers patents and software  - or just
|>>
|>>patents.
|>>
|>>>  It was my understanding that players don't violate the patents.
|>>
|>>What do you base this statement on?  Fraunhofer has historically only
|>>pursued redress of patent violations by encoder
|>>vendors/authors/distributors, but the patent certainly apply to
players as
|>>well to my reading
|>>(http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:ALmB5xvpHasC:www.mp3-tech.org/docs/5579430.pdf+mp3+patent&hl=en&ie=UTF-8).
|>>
|>>They used to have a blanket grant of gratis license to "free" players.
|>>This is complicated, since one of the freedoms of GPL software is
that you
|>>MAY sell it.  Anyway, the situation went from shaky to downright
|>>problematic and RH has just opted out of the whole mess.
|>>
|>>Go Vorbis.
|>>
|>>-Peter
|>>
|>>
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|>
|>thanks,
|>jd
|>
|>jd at taproot.bz
|>http://www.taproot.bz
|>
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