Thanks, hadn't seen that. Ok, well I guess they do deserve some credit for owning up to their patents having expired. I am sure there are others out there who would keep claiming they still had IP in the hope of creating enough uncertainty to get at least some people to keep paying.
Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jon" <[email protected]> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 2:59:32 PM > Subject: Re: mp3 encoding now ok > > From the source: > > """ > On April 23, 2017, Technicolor's mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 > related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has > been terminated. > """ > > https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html > > --Jon > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Denise Dumas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Congratulations!!! > > > >> On May 3, 2017, at 1:45 PM, Christian Schaller <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> So just wanted everyone to know that we now have the go ahead to ship mp3 > >> encoding in Fedora too. So anyone involved with packaging > >> mp3 encoders can now start migrating them to the Fedora repositories. We > >> are still in the process of evaluating other codecs. > >> > >> Christian > >> _______________________________________________ > >> devel mailing list -- [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > > -- > > -Jon Disnard > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
