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May 6, 2017 06:00 pm
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Fedora Will Get Full Mp3 Support, As IIS Fraunhofer Terminates Mp3 Licensing Program
An anonymous reader quotes Fedora Magazine:Both MP3 encoding and decoding will soon be officially supported in Fedora. Last November the patents covering MP3 decoding expired and Fedora Workstation enabled MP3 decoding via the mpg123 library and GStreamer... The MP3 codec and Open Source have had a troubled relationship over the past decade, especially within the United States. Historically, due to licensing issues Fedora has been unable to include MP3 decoding or encoding within the base distribution... A couple of weeks ago IIS Fraunhofer and Technicolor terminated their licensing program and just a few days ago Red Hat Legal provided the permission to ship MP3 encoding in Fedora.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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