[gst-devel] Use of mp3parse in a commercial product

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On 01/28/2011 03:58 PM, pl bossart wrote:
>> I am not a lawyer, but the reason we put the plugin into ugly was that
>> it could only be used with plugins we felt could have problems. That
>> said we have actually discussed moving it to good at certain times as
>> people who want to use it with a mp3 hardware decoder for instance,
>> would find it useful. So as far as I can tell it would not be an issue
>> for you to use this plugin in your product, same goes for the aacparser
>> one.
>
> If you are using a 'legal' decoding library you somehow already paid
> for the right to use MP3-related patents. Seeking does not use any
> other patents. Same if a hardware decoder is used, a license fee was
> already paid to Thomson and others.
> If you didn't pay any kind of license you would be in gray area even
> before looking into seeking...

Hmmm got me wondering here... if I buy an IP camera that sends an MP4 
stream, can I legally decode that stream with the software in gstreamer 
if my product is sold as part of the camera?