[Audacity-devel] MP3 licensing: false alarm?

[Dominic M. <do...@mi...>]

See recent Slashdot article.

The important part:

Arland says Thomson not only allows but encourages the use of MP3 
technology in free client-side players, that "it is in our best interest 
to have as many freely distributed MP3 players as possible" available to 
users, because this helps keep MP3 popular. He also says Thomson has no 
plans to start charging royalties to producers of freely-distributed MP3 
player software, and that "it would not be in our best interests to do 
so." But, he says several times -- using slightly different words each 
time -- the second you sell software or hardware that contains Thomson's 
patented technology, the company wants money, and this is not 
negotiable, GPL or no GPL.

- Dominic