Re: [Gnash] MP3 will be legal

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:33:34 -0700

Jordi Pina wrote: 
Yes, it will, in April 2010 when the patent expires. But for now we should
let GStreamer do the sound decoding, and if the user has the
gstreamer-plugins-ugly package, GStreamer will play the MP3s in the flash
file.
    
Is this sure that nobody will patent it? I see it like an utopy...
I'm not sure what you mean. Somebody already has patented it. Those patents expire in April 2010. You can't re-patent something, AFAIK.

Graeme



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