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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2017 17:31:39 +0200
From:      Matthieu Volat <mazhe@alkumuna.eu>
To:        Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>
Cc:        Koichiro IWAO <meta@vmeta.jp>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MP3 licensing over - can we remove LAME restrictions?
Message-ID:  <20170516173139.0d9fdf12@freedom.alkumuna.eu>
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On Tue, 16 May 2017 14:44:52 +0000
Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 May 2017 at 1:07 pm, Koichiro IWAO <meta@vmeta.jp> wrote:
>=20
> > Hi,
> >
> > FYI, MP3 is coming back to Fedora. I think FreeBSD may able to do that.
> > https://fedoramagazine.org/full-mp3-support-coming-soon-to-fedora/
> > =20
>=20
> If this analysis is correct, it sounds like the final patents will expire
> by the end of this year?
>=20
> http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/
>=20
> Regards,
> Ben

Hi, the Fraunhofer institute released a statement about their licensing of =
the patents:

https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html

That should be it? Now we can wait for aac, h264, h265 ;)

Regards,

--=20
Matthieu Volat <mazhe@alkumuna.eu>

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