[gst-devel] mp3 decoder

[Felipe Contreras]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Michael Smith <msmith at xiph.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Gnanasekar <sk.gnanasekar at gdatech.co.in> wrote:
>>> Thats the requirement for me ....we should mot use existing plug-in
>>> ....thats why !
>>
>> So basically you don't know why.
>>
>> My guess is that it's a licensing issue.
>>
>> If that's the case then perhaps you can use Google Android's mp3
>> decoder, which has Apache license, so there are no patent issues.
>
> I assume you meant "there are no copyright issues". The apache license
> does not magically make the patent issues surrounding mp3 go away.

By "no patent issues" I meant that if a company contributes code to it
it doesn't mean give your patents away. I don't know if it's true or
not, but companies seem to think that contributing to GPL code means
give away their patents. The Google Android stuff specifically says
that wouldn't happen, so I guess there's a patent issue that doesn't
happen in their code.

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Felipe Contreras