Re: [Gnash] MP3 will be legal

[Unit3]

Jordi Pina wrote:

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.
    

Is this sure that nobody will patent it? I see it like an utopy...
  

I'm not sure what you mean. Somebody already has patented it. Those patents expire in April 2010. You can't re-patent something, AFAIK.

Graeme