Timwi wrote:
Delirium wrote:
The decoder at the very least is almost certainly
legally okay, and
widely available in players like winamp and xmms, and even the
encoders, like LAME, are rather common and have not received legal
threats.
As far as I'm aware, LAME is specifically paying the patent royalties.
Decoding MP3 is patent-free, that is correct. Same with GIF.
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That means we expect people to create, as well as consume, these
materials; indeed we've built the whole project around people like us
coming to visit and contribute material, rather than a central
controlling entity producing materials itself that visitors merely consume.
Formats that can't be encoded aren't really fitting with that.
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