mp3 help...

Niels Weber nath at snafu.de
Sat Oct 25 07:53:28 UTC 2003


Am Sa, den 25.10.2003 schrieb Erik Englund um 01:10:
> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 00:18, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > MP3 issue is not about to change until the patent expires, which 
> > if calculations are correct is 17 years after it was filed.
> > 
> what about a non us release? software patents isn't a problem everywhere
> in the world... :)
This is why you get the mp3 rpms easily from non US servers. And this is
why Mandrake (french) and SuSE (german) can distribute p3 capable stuff.
(it being not GPL compatible left aside)
-- 
Niels Weber <nath at snafu.de>





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