Tuesday, 3. September 2002
Topic: - on September 3, 2002 at 1:28:35 AM CEST
MP3 codecs no longer free for GPL use
There's a nice controversy brewing over a semantic change in Thomson Multimedia's MP3 licensing policy which has got the open-source community's knickers in a twist. According to an open letter to Thompson from Xiph.org CEO Emmett Plant, an exemption from regular licensing fees for GPL'd software has just been withdrawn.
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