Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:35:10 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, cpiazza@FreeBSD.ORG, dburr@FreeBSD.ORG, demon@FreeBSD.ORG, dirk@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: <20020829133510.5eed415d.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net> References: <20020828014959.G90781-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 01:58:53 -0400 (EDT) Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> wrote: > The Fraunhofer Institute seems to have discontinued the exception it > was making for free software. "Statement from Thomson Multimedia, mp3 Licensing In a posting appearing Tuesday August 27, 2002 on the Web site 'slashdot.org', an individual cited a change in the mp3 license fee structure of Thomson and Fraunhofer. The writer of the post apparently misread the mp3 licensing conditions, as Thomson's mp3 licensing policy has not experienced any change. To clarify, since the beginning of our mp3 licensing program in 1995, Thomson has never charged a per unit royalty for freely distributed software decoders. For commercially sold decoders -- primarily hardware mp3 players -- the per-unit royalty has always been in place since the beginning of the program. Therefore, there is no change in our licensing policy and we continue to believe that the royalty fees of .75 cents per mp3 player (on average selling over $200 dollars) has no measurable impact on the consumer experience." Taken from http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/vza-29.08.02-000/ Bye, Alexander. -- Intel: where Quality is job number 0.9998782345! http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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