Re: [Protux-devel] Re: MustuxAudioFileFormat

[Luciano Giordana]

interesting.... can anybody confirm that ?

I was wondering.. in Debian , which is a pure free-software distro, there are 
mp3 players.. so, I guess mp3 can be indeed read without breaking patents, 
royalties , or any crap like those...


On Tuesday 16 March 2004 04:14 pm, Martin Herren wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:56:55 -0300
>
> > Is mp3 royalty free ? if not.. I am afraid we cannot natively read the
> > files
>
> afaik mp3 decoding is royalty free, but not the encoding. So it shouldn't
> be a problem to import mp3, but we can't export them natively.
>
> /Martin

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