Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 30, 2002 02:36 AM
I am still not a lawyer, just a music lover<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... the website used to say "No license fee is expected for desktop software mp3 decoders/players that are distributed free-of-charge via the Internet for personal use of end-users. " quoting from http://web.archive.org/web/20000620125739/mp3lice<nobr>n<wbr></nobr> sing.com/royalty/swdec.html
This could be considered a perpetual grant of license to the xmms team and many others.
I suspect that Thomson would be violating MPEG/ISO rules if they won't grant such a licence to a new developer.
They really have some chutzpah to remove that from the website. But now that MP3 has a life of its own, maybe they don't need MPEG or ISO to promote their invention any more.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 30, 2002 02:36 AMthe website used to say
"No license fee is expected for desktop software mp3 decoders/players that are distributed free-of-charge via the Internet for personal use of end-users.
"
quoting from
http://web.archive.org/web/20000620125739/mp3lice<nobr>n<wbr></nobr> sing.com/royalty/swdec.html
This could be considered a perpetual grant of license to the xmms team and many others.
I suspect that Thomson would be violating MPEG/ISO rules if they won't grant such a licence to a new developer.
They really have some chutzpah to remove that from the website. But now that MP3 has a life of its own, maybe they don't need MPEG or ISO to promote their invention any more.
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