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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:56:25 +0200
From:      Dirk Froemberg <dirk@freebsd.org>
To:        Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org, cpiazza@freebsd.org, dburr@freebsd.org, demon@freebsd.org, esk@ira.uka.de, greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org, knu@freebsd.org, leo@florida.sarang.net, markp@freebsd.org, nakai@freebsd.org, patrick@freebsd.org, petef@freebsd.org, vanilla@freebsd.org, yar@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC:  mark MP3 encoders, editors, and players RESTRICTED
Message-ID:  <20020828165625.GA15609@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
In-Reply-To: <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net>
References:  <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net>

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Hi!

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:58:53AM -0400, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> The Fraunhofer Institute seems to have discontinued the exception it was
> making for free software.

AFAIK nothing really has changed recently in regard to the licensing
policies of Thomson. The changes the slashdot article is referring
to happened about one and a half year ago.

The ports you made changes to fall in three categories:

- mp3 utilities (like easytag, cd2mp3, ...)
- mp3 decoders
- mp3 encoders

The first category isn't subject of the license anyway. The second
category shouldn't be a problem. No single step has been taken to
get any license fee for mp3 decoders yet. Probably the only category
having a problem is the last one. The FHI (Frauenhofer Institut)
seems to insist on the license here.

Anyway, IMHO we don't have a real legal problem here. But perhaps
your motivation was a political one (let's stop mp3 in favour of
ogg 8-)...

	Regards Dirk

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Dirk Froemberg

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