[Wikipedia-l] Re: Theora and video policy...

[Timwi]

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.