Summary: | Fluendo GStreamer MP3 Plug-in available | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Jose daLuz <jdaluz> |
Component: | [OLD] GNOME | Assignee: | GStreamer package maintainers <gstreamer> |
Status: | RESOLVED OBSOLETE | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | leio, metalgod, pacho |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2005.1 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://www.fluendo.com/resources/fluendo_mp3.php | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Jose daLuz
2006-01-24 16:06:59 UTC
What do you think we should do re: this plugin? If I read their licensing info correctly, any distro can just sign the redistribution contract and then ship the binary plugin. Doing so would allow Gentoo to have an MP3 GStreamer plugin not threatened by patent issues. I'm against software patents, but having this in the tree would help insulate the Gentoo community from disruptions caused by tech-illiterate courts and industry-owned legislators. I think the trustees needs to get in touch with fluendo to get this going but since Zaheer knows this process maybe he could give us how to do it. Pinging Gstreamer folks in case this got lost: While the Bilski decision in the US has apparently made software patents harder to enforce here, it's possible the Supreme Court could overturn this when they hear this case in the fall. Other jurisdictions outside the US still have to deal with this issue. I still think the effort involved in getting a fully unencumbered MP3 plugin in the tree is worth it. This Fluendo plugin isn't really a thing these days anymore. Use media-plugins/gst-plugins-mpg123 for MP3 decoding. |