On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Eric Padman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fluendo (the company behind gstreamer) has paid a fee to license the > MP3 patents for use with gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3. It is released > under a MIT license but it is not GPL compatible because of the patent > licensing. > > "Any distribution or Unix maker out there who want to include the > Fluendo MP3 plug-in with their distribution can do so by just signing > a contract with Fluendo to become an official redistributor. This > contract includes no monetary compensation to Fluendo for getting the > right to redistribute the Fluendo MP3 plug-in and no demands of > additional purchases from Fluendo. The main purpose of the contract is > to satisfy our upstream contractual requirements. By signing this > contract any distribution can support mp3 out of the box without any > additional license fee. Take a look at the example contract and > contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for details." > > "If you are living in a country where the mp3 patents don't apply you > can of course use the source code provided by Fluendo (or anyone else) > to get legal mp3 support onto your Unix/GNU/Linux desktop. > > On the other hand, if you live in a country where the patents apply, > or if you are a distribution maker who sells your distribution in > countries where the patents apply, then you need the licensed binary > from Fluendo. This of course is no problem, but be aware that even if > our binary is made from MIT licensed source code the resulting binary > combined with our license is not free software, at least not > GPL-compatible. This means that if you ship GStreamer with our binary > mp3 plug-in, you need to be sure that you don't ship any GPL-licensed > plug-ins that could end up being used together with the mp3 plug-in, > as this would violate the GPL. And you don't want to violate the GPL. > You also need to make sure you don't ship any GPL-licensed players > which would use this plug-in. > > Luckily most GStreamer plug-ins are LGPL and there are already > playback applications out there with licensing terms that allow them > to be used with non-free plug-ins. The Totem media player and the > Banshee music player are two examples." > > Quotes from http://www.fluendo.com/resources/fluendo_mp3.php > > Fluendo distributes this as MIT licensed source and a binary plugin > which confuses matters somewhat. > > LAME is free software (GPL) but probably can't be used legally in > countries where these software patents apply. > > On a related question, what is the gNewSense position of software > patents as regards software in the repositories? > I think that Paul just said that (again) as response to my last mail. And i'm not sure he want to repet it again. Here is it we take the line that we don't take a line > Regards > > 2008/6/16 Luis Alberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Luis Alberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> > >> You may want to try gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 > >> Free Software, but > > > > this is mp3, non-free format. > >> > >> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Bruno Miguel > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Em 15-06-2008 19:41:51 briareoh escreveu: > >>> > Hi > >>> > > >>> > > This situation makes me question if there is a free mp3 > >>> > > library or something like that for ffmpeg. I found an > >>> > > enconder, but it is not capable of converting videos to > >>> > > audio. > >>> > > >>> > As far as I know, the LAME library is free software. > >>> > Although, you can > >>> > use Audacity with Lame to convert files. > >>> > Try it: > >>> > http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php > >>> > > >>> > Cheers > >>> > > >>> > >>> So, why it's not included in gNS 2.0? > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> gNewSense-users mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Luis Alberto Guzmán García > > > > > > -- > > Luis Alberto Guzmán García > > _______________________________________________ > > gNewSense-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > > > > > -- Luis Alberto Guzmán García
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