Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
The situation with MP3 is, as I understand it, much worse. Here the threat is to both encoders and decoders.
Audacity (free sound editor) has no complaints reading MP3s, but if you try to save as MP3, you get a message box telling you about licensing and patents and how you will have to install the LAME encoder.
I really don't think decoding MP3s is covered by patents.
Timwi