Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
The situation with MP3 is, as I understand it, much
worse. Here the threat is to both encoders and decoders.
Audacity (free sound editor) has no complaints reading MP3s, but if you
try to save as MP3, you get a message box telling you about licensing
and patents and how you will have to install the LAME encoder.
I really don't think decoding MP3s is covered by patents.
Timwi