mp3 patents

Posted Feb 15, 2017 22:47 UTC (Wed) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
Parent article: This is why I drink: a discussion of Fedora's legal state

Anyone know when spot's calenda goes "bing" for mp3 encoding? It's a minor annoyance, I'd rather use ogg, but when I'm sending somebody something that doesn't always seem to work, alas.

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mp3 patents

Posted Feb 15, 2017 23:58 UTC (Wed) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322) [Link] (1 responses)

Dunno about spot, but Wikipedia thinks it's 31 Dec 2017.

mp3 patents

Posted Feb 21, 2017 16:04 UTC (Tue) by KAMiKAZOW (guest, #107958) [Link]

There are two dates to consider: Date of filing and date of grant. The filing date + 20 years is IIRC April 2017, so just in time for Fedora 26.