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Codec Buddy in Fedora 8Codec Buddy in Fedora 8Posted Nov 3, 2007 13:41 UTC (Sat) by spot (subscriber, #15640)In reply to: Codec Buddy in Fedora 8 by freemars Parent article: Codec Buddy in Fedora 8
AFAIK, there is no legal route (in the US) to encode MP3s (on Linux).
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Codec Buddy in Fedora 8 Posted Nov 4, 2007 5:07 UTC (Sun) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link] Playing devils advocate: Could you do it through Wine with a licensed Win/Mac application?
Codec Buddy in Fedora 8 Posted Nov 4, 2007 22:42 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Depends on the EULA of the application, and weither or not the EULA is actually legal. Most of Microsoft's tools say things like 'any application you make requires a microsoft windows license to run' or something like that. Basicly they don't want you to use anything you make using Micrsoft stuff to run on anything other then Microsoft Windows. For example: Years ago there was a fall out with FoxPro developers and Microsoft over this. Microsoft bought out FoxPro basicly to get FoxPro's customer base. Some of those developers disliked Windows and did their development on Linux using Wine.. which Microsoft then came back and told them this was completely illegal. After some fighting the end people figured that while it was ok to develop their applications in Linux the as long as the end users could only run Windows to run their applications. (or something like that. It's been a while) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/17/ms_legal_threat_d... That sort of thing is probably happenning with Apple stuff also. I would expect that Apple has similar things about applications targetting their platform running on Linux. It's all pretty stupid and is why you either want to be fully legal by licensing stuff from people like Fluendo.. or just ignore the laws completely and do what you want (like the vast majority of people) What you choose to do depends on the sort of liability you would be faced with. :)
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