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Re: [gNewSense-users] Suspected Non-free


From: Andreas K. Foerster
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] Suspected Non-free
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:38:03 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Am Sonntag, dem 15. Apr 2007 schrieb Koh Choon Lin:

> mpg321 is certainly free as it is under the GPL.

It is free in the sense of the copyright law.
But patent law is a different matter.

In Europe software patents should be no issue, but that's not true 
for the whole world. 

It's true, that any non-trivial software includes patented ideas. 
But especially the MP3 patents are aggressively enforced.

see http://www.mp3licensing.com/
And have especially an eye on what they do *not* tell! :-(

-- 
AKFoerster




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