[MPlayer-users] mp3 licensing

[gabor]

sorry, but:

1. this address contains the current licensing issues:
 http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html

2. the waybackmachine archives webpages... so go to this link,
and try the various versions of the webpage... see for yourself that the
change happened somewhere between 2001.02.08 - 2001.08.20
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html

that's all.. they changed nothing...
and read this, to see more clearly:
http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/cooker/2002-08/msg04710.php

i'm repeating myself :-) :
nothing changed in the license, the alarming news is that redhat is
removing the mp3players from his distro.

bye,
gabor


On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 17:03, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> gabor writes:
>  > yes, according to other sources the licensing terms changed last in
>  > 2001.8 .... so nothing new..
>  > 
>  > i think the reason why people has begun discussing this is the fact that
>  > redhat removed all mp3-players from his new distro...
> 
> 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.
> 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/27/1626241&mode=thread&tid=155
> 
> Diego
> 
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