The question here is DECODERS not ENCODERS, though why blade is not IN the distro I do not know....
Cheers, Jason Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: >>>>>>"D" == David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> > > D> The frauenhofer page I've seen doesn't say, all it does is give > D> different royalty rates for decoders depending on whether or > D> not they're based on frauenhoffer code. > > The only mention of this I can find on DayPop is a 1999 article on > mp3.com: > > Only two prominent MP3 encoders for UNIX remained: Fraunhofer IIS' > own MP3Enc and the freely available BladeEnc. How did BladeEnc > survive the royalties crunch? > > The answer lies in geography. Tord Jansson has been developing > BladeEnc in Sweden, where the government does not honor patents on > algorithms. The MP3 standard is an algorithm for encoding audio, > and therefore, Jansson is not required to pay royalties for his > encoder. > > http://www.mp3.com/news/264.html > > What has changed? Why do we not just continue to use the BladeEnc? > For that matter, why don't we all just move to Sweden! >
