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

Thu Jun 24 20:51:37 UTC 2004

Timwi wrote:
> Delirium wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> As far as I'm aware, LAME is specifically paying the patent royalties.
> 
> Decoding MP3 is patent-free, that is correct. Same with GIF.

Our content license requires that we provide materials in editable form. 
That means we expect people to create, as well as consume, these 
materials; indeed we've built the whole project around people like us 
coming to visit and contribute material, rather than a central 
controlling entity producing materials itself that visitors merely consume.

Formats that can't be encoded aren't really fitting with that.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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