[Wikipedia-l] Re: Theora and video policy...

Thu Jun 24 18:42:42 UTC 2004

Delirium wrote:
> I'm not so sure about mp3.  Certainly there are parties who *claim* it 
> is not usable legally, but the software is in fact generally available 
> for all operating systems, and to my knowledge there have been no 
> lawsuits attempting to put an end to its availability (and certainly no 
> successful ones).  The decoder at the very least is almost certainly 
> legally okay, and widely available in players like winamp and xmms, and 
> even the encoders, like LAME, are rather common and have not received 
> legal threats.
> 

BladeEnc has, as far as I can remember.

You’re most possibly right about the decoders.