[OE-core] dropping commerical flags in mpg123 and lame recipes

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Sat Apr 14 14:16:59 UTC 2018


On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 1:30 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani
<dv at pseudoterminal.org> wrote:
> The lame and mpg123 can be built only if the commercial flag is whitelisted.
>
> However, the remaining mp3 patents expired in December, and no more
> royalties exist. This is why in GStreamer, the mpg123 and lame plugins were
> moved from -ugly to -good.
>
> So, can we drop the commercial flag in mpg123 and lame?
>

We probably need more clarification see
http://www.audioblog.iis.fraunhofer.com/mp3-software-patents-licenses/

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