[lug] redhat beta musings

[j davis]

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

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