[Gnash] MP3 will be legal

[a thing]

Daniel James <address@hidden> wrote:
> > We are not prepared to issue and irrevocable, free patent license to 
GPL and LGPL software using our patents.

> This means MP3 will never be free software compatible.

Yes, it will, in April 2010 when the patent expires. But for now we should let 
GStreamer do the sound decoding, and if the user has the gstreamer-plugins-ugly 
package, GStreamer will play the MP3s in the flash file.

> The only long-term solution is to lobby Macromedia to include Vorbis support 
> into a future open Flash standard. It's in their commercial and technical 
> interest to do so, as Vorbis is royalty free, and sounds better than MP3 at low 
> bitrates.

I concur.