XMMS Not Working with MP3 files

[Rick Stevens]

Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>> GURUPRASAD, NAVEEN wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> Recently I migrated my comp to RedHat Linux 9.0, when tried to play a 
>>> mp3 file, there is a message "License Issue".
>>>
>>> Can anyone advice me to fix this problem
> 
> 
> Sorry , you can't fix License Issues . It is not a problem for you to
> resolve , others have to deal with Licences . Meanwhile though
> you can just go to
> 
> http://www.xmms.org/download.php  ,
> 
> get the source of the xmms 1.2.10 , compile it  and go on with it .
> 
> 
>> There was a copyright infringement lawsuit over this, so RedHat stopped
>> sending MP3-enabled xmms stuff.
>>
>> If you want to risk it, you can get the codec and such from:
>>
>>     http://havardk.xmms.org/dist/xmms-1.2.7-rh8-rh9-rpm/
>>
>> By the way, there is no such animal as Red Hat Linux 9.0.  It is
>> RedHat Linux 9 (no ".0").
> 
> 
> Rick , if i recall well you have said that before and it is
> Suse Linux 9.0 and Redhat Linux 9 , it is just a difference
> in the trademarks stuff .

No, it is not.  SUSe and Red Hat are totally different.  There are no
commonalities between versions.
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