[MPlayer-users] mp3 licensing

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Wed Aug 28 23:31:02 CEST 2002


Hi,

> No, they changed the licensing terms for freely distributable players
> that used to be exempt from fees.  Now they have to pay just like
> anybody else, 0,75. per decoder.

it's just the same story as with the one of .gif images

.gif was declared illegal years ago, people started to delete their gif
files but teh net is still full of them

don't expect me to break 120 CDs of mp3 now
nor to paid for using mplayer :)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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