multimedia licensing

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Tue Apr 19 04:28:25 UTC 2005


kwhiskers wrote:

> I am glad to hear that the GPL can act as a kind of safeguard for 
> keeping Linux free. I am definitely sold on the idea of free software, 
> free books, free art, free music, etc, to permit everyone access to 
> electronic media without disenfranchisement based on income or lack of 
> financial resources.
>
> I would gladly convert my mp3 files, but there are thousands, and 
> apart from the time it would take, there is also the concern that 
> there would be a loss of quality through the conversion. But mostly, I 
> am worried that, were I to convert to ogg vorbis and theora, I could 
> not share files with friends.


For your information, Winamp 5 does support ogg vorbis.  vorbis.org has 
details of other players that support it

regards
Rahul




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