Mercurial > audlegacy
changeset 1121:75ac6ae39225 trunk
[svn] - add section concerning the MP3 patents and commercial use
| author | nenolod |
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| date | Tue, 30 May 2006 23:28:14 -0700 |
| parents | 8e6b7ed7dd88 |
| children | ddd7946bdd8f |
| files | Plugins/Input/mpg123/README |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/Plugins/Input/mpg123/README Tue May 30 23:10:32 2006 -0700 +++ b/Plugins/Input/mpg123/README Tue May 30 23:28:14 2006 -0700 @@ -51,4 +51,17 @@ major issue; however if it is, a lowlevel API (mainly undocumented) is provided to allow for the implementation of custom event loops. - -- William Pitcock <nenolod@nenolod.net>, May 23 2006 +libmpgdec and patents +===================== + +While I believe libmpgdec is not patent encumbered by the Huffman patents +(Thomson), and that it is not encumbered by any of the Fraunhofer or +Coding Technologies patents, I do not happen to be a patent lawyer, so +I cannot tell you for sure. I do however, know that the patents (in theory) +only cover linear synthesis-based decoding, and that libmpgdec uses +adaptive decoding. You can draw your own conclusions, there. + +That said, if you are using libmpgdec in a commercial application, it may +be wise for you to go ahead and get patent licences from Fraunhofer. + + -- William Pitcock <nenolod@nenolod.net>, May 30 2006