On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 13:38, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Has anyone contacted the developer of the algorithm in question?? > > If not, this is all shooting in the dark. I wanna know if > > Mandrake has contacted this Frauenwhoever to ask if "Free" > > decoding software is indeed excluded from possible > > litigation??. > > -=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=-- > From: Haavard Kvaalen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [XMMS-DEVEL] mp3 status ? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed Aug 28 13:26:49 2002 +0200 > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Colin Leroy wrote: > > > What are you going to do about this new mp3 issue ? > > We are not going to do anything about it. > > I'm a bit surprised that this has come up now, mp3licensing.com has never > listed any exemption for freeware decoders. I suppose that the rates have > changed recently. I don't think that they were zero for decoders earlier > either, but I'm not sure. > > The reference that has been used to document freeware decoders exemption > from licencing fees is this: > <URL:http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/mp3-licensing.html> > > - Håvard > -=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=---=-=-- > > Haavard Kvaalen == lead xmms developer. > > > -- > Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Lemme link to the archive.org page in question: Compare this: http://web.archive.org/web/20001212023000/mp3licensing.com/royalty/swdec.html to this: http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html The first link is the version of that page that existed up till August 20, 2001; the second is the version that's been current since then. -- adamw
