The Multimedia Question

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul 18, 2007, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Note that Free software but patent encumbered is not equivalent to
> non-free.

+1

> The Fluendo codecs are non-free.

Yup.  Although the copyright license might make it seem like it's Free
Software, the patent license that's an integral part of the fluendo
plugin offer imposes restrictions on the exercises of the rights
granted by the copyright license, which renders the software as
distributed non-Free.

https://core.fluendo.com/gstreamer/trac/browser/trunk/gst-fluendo-mp3/LICENSE

  this software license does not allow you to redistribute or copy
  complete, ready to use mp3 software decoder binaries made from the
  Source Code as made available by Fluendo.

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