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Re: [gNewSense-users] Suspected Non-free
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Andreas K. Foerster |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] Suspected Non-free |
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Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:38:03 +0200 |
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Am Sonntag, dem 15. Apr 2007 schrieb Koh Choon Lin:
> mpg321 is certainly free as it is under the GPL.
It is free in the sense of the copyright law.
But patent law is a different matter.
In Europe software patents should be no issue, but that's not true
for the whole world.
It's true, that any non-trivial software includes patented ideas.
But especially the MP3 patents are aggressively enforced.
see http://www.mp3licensing.com/
And have especially an eye on what they do *not* tell! :-(
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AKFoerster
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- Re: [gNewSense-users] Suspected Non-free, Karl Goetz, 2007/04/16
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