RE: Likely illegal programs in Knoppix 4.0.2 CD?
And the SCO website most probably tells you that you need a licence from
them to run Linux...
-----Original Message-----
From: malaire@gmail.com [mailto:malaire@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Markus
Laire
Sent: 20 December, 2005 09:47
To: Klaus Knopper
Cc: debian-knoppix@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Likely illegal programs in Knoppix 4.0.2 CD?
On 12/19/05, Klaus Knopper <debian-knoppix@knopper.net> wrote:
> I think you are confusing a few things here. MP3 itself is not
illegal.
> The Fraunhofer MP3 encoder scheme is patented and has to be
commercially
> licensed for ENCODING. mpg321 (not 123) is an mp3-compatible free/open
> source player that is, to the best of my knowledge, considered to be
> legally OK for distribution. It does not use any proprietary code.
At least http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/ seems to claim that
license is needed also for DEcoding.
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Markus Laire
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