enable MP3 support per default?
Harald Sitter
sitter at kde.org
Thu Nov 2 08:21:52 GMT 2017
You should talk to the distribution mailing list really. They have actual
legal teams for these kinds of questions.
On Nov 2, 2017 5:44 AM, "Thomas Eschenbacher" <Thomas.Eschenbacher at gmx.de>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have heared that it is allowed now to include MP3 support in open
> source, as MP3 patents have timed out... is that true?
>
> I ask because I still have set the default for MP3 support to "disabled"
> in the build system of my application (Kwave), to avoid problems for
> packagers/distributors.
>
> If it is ok for you, I would like to change the default of MP3 support
> to "enabled" and make MP3 import (through libmad + Kwave plugin)
> available per default - like most users expect.
>
> Anyone voting against it?
>
> regards,
> Thomas
>
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