On Sunday 13 November 2005 08:38, you wrote:

Fedora, Forbidden Itemshttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#head-69c9770fc2ef79ea9a6 91d03aa2f475eed113bfa

Except that the GPL (v2) talks nothing of patents, so it would be technically legal.

My how to on how to add mp3/wma support to Fedorahttp://www.pembo13.com/linux/fc4-audio.php

On 11/12/05, Luke-Jr [email protected] wrote:

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On Saturday 12 November 2005 23:27, Leo Mauler wrote:

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Someone on another forum lambasted my suggestion that the XviD video

codec

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would play on any Linux machine by saying that most distros didn't come

with

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MP3 support, making a lot of XviD videos play in Linux with no sound.

XviD is not MP3. Generally, XviD is paired up with Vorbis, so it's not even a safe assumption that an XviD encoded video would use MP3... so the whole debate is irrelevant to your suggestion. Of course, I wouldn't suggest XviD-- ffmpeg's MP4 encoder is better.

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I went looking and of course he's right, Debian and Ubuntu don't have it

for

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obvious licensing reasons, Redhat pulled support for MP3 back in version

8.0

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and never put it back. Mandriva still includes support for MP3s.

I think the lack of MP3 support is more of a lecture on using Vorbis instead of MP3 than anything else.

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What exactly is the official policy on MP3s? Is there an unwritten

policy

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thats sort of <nudge, nudge, wink, wink> regarding allowing free

software

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MP3 decoders/encoders?

I think there's a written licensing policy that MP3 is licensed for any non-commercial use. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug

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