On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, duncan brown wrote: > it's actually a german company that holds the rights to mp3, and it's > nothing to do with laws per-se, more along othe lines of royalties. sure it does, fraunhoffer iis's patent intelectual property is protected by US law hence inclusion without complying with their liscensing terms (which probably isn't possible under the gpl) could get you in trouble. you can however do it someplace that doesn't allow algorythmic or software patents, so long as you aren't a US citizen of course... IANL, etc. better to use ogg or flac. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Steve Bergman <steve@xxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 20:57:30 -0500 > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: MP3s and Linux > > > On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 20:48, Brittany wrote: > > > Is their any kind of software that i can use to play MP3's onto my > > > Linux? Theirs an audio player but it doesn't play MP3's and when i try > > > it doesn't play. Does anybody know any kind of applications? Also I hate > > > to ask but i need help with the installation as i have no clue of how to > > > install it. > > > > You need the xmms-mp3 plugin from http://rpm.livna.org > > > > Setting up yum/up2date to use fedora.us and livna.org yields a multitude > > of benefits. Sane U.S. laws would be better, but don't hold your > > breath... > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods. > > +( duncan brown > +( duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxx > +( http://www.linuxadvocate.net > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
