[Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development

[Dan Sugalski <dan@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:06 AM 6/23/00 +0300, Tuomas Airaksinen wrote:
> And there are gpl'd mp3 encoders like bladeenc, so what's really
> the problem?
The MP3 encoding scheme's patented. It doesn't matter whether there are 
encoders (or decoders, I think) under the GPL (or LGPL, or Artistic, or 
BSD, or whatever)--they're all illegal unless the authors have a license 
from the patent holder.
                                        Dan

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