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

[Carlos Rafael Giani]

Please note that the Fraunhofer page is from May 2017. These sources 
suggest that the final patent expired in December 2017:

https://madfileformatscience.garymcgath.com/2016/04/05/mp3patent/
https://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/

Fedora now added LAME and mpg123 support, since they consider the 
patents expired: 
https://fedoramagazine.org/full-mp3-support-coming-soon-to-fedora/

Fraunhofer terminated the mp3 licensing program in April 2017: 
https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html

(German source) wikimedia now allows mp3 uploads: 
https://netzpolitik.org/2017/wikimedia-erlaubt-upload-von-mp3-dateien/


On 2018-04-14 16:16, Khem Raj wrote:
> 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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