[Freeciv-Dev] Re: sound development

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 01:59:34AM +0300, Tuomas Airaksinen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 01:57:24PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> So mpg123 devels (and others) are criminals? 
> 
> Hmm...

If they live in Europe, then no (Munich Convention, point 52.5)
If they live in US, then yes

I would suggest OGG VORBIS (visit http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ for details)
that is patentless, LGPL/GPL etc.

When 1.12 will be out OGG VORBIS will be stable enough.