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Request 478935 superseded

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Dave Plater's avatar

This is the last existing US patent that expires in December: https://www.google.com/patents/US5703999


Luigi Baldoni's avatar
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Sorry, I don't understand. Does that concern mpg123 or mad? Should I wait for legal or just update it on packman for the time being?


Dave Plater's avatar

The final decision is up to legal but I did a bit more research and the last patent is for encoders ie.libmp3lame. In fact mpeg2 video format will be patent free middle of next year. If this passes legal then libmad should be ok as well.


Dominique Leuenberger's avatar

The various audio modules (e.g pulse) could probably take a Supplements - to ensure they get auto-installed when appropriate


Tomáš Chvátal's avatar

I would also say that openal should be cool enough for its own subpackage


Bjørn Lie's avatar

@legal-team @babelworx Don't know if this helps or not, but Fedora is now shipping this lib.

See https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mpg123.git/


Tomas Cech's avatar

what is this request waiting for?


Stephan Kulow's avatar

legal review - just like the other 4 months before


Tomas Cech's avatar

Thanks, The state is a bit confusing...

Open review for openSUSE:Factory:Staging:adi:27 - where it succeeded

Open review for legal-auto - waiting for bot?


Max Lin's avatar

openSUSE:Factory:Staging:adi:27 <- ie. staging project review must be the last one to accept after the rest of reviews was done.


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Luigi Baldoni's avatar

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factory-auto accepted review

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maxlin_factory added as a reviewer

Being evaluated by staging project "openSUSE:Factory:Staging:adi:27"


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maxlin_factory accepted review

Picked openSUSE:Factory:Staging:adi:27


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factory-repo-checker accepted review

Builds for repo openSUSE:Factory:Staging:adi:27/standard


Dave Plater's avatar

plater accepted review

It would be nice if this can be in the main distribution but although all the patents have apparently expired in Europe, I'm lead to believe that there is one left in USA that expires at the end of this year.


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factory-repo-checker superseded request

superseded by 482306

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