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

[Burton, Ross]

I *think* we're good to do this.  If you could send a patch with a
nice long commit message with sources and comparisons to other
distros, then we can have a concrete patch to review and get further
advice on.

Ross

On 15 April 2018 at 09:12, Carlos Rafael Giani <dv at pseudoterminal.org> wrote:
> 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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