"Marcus" == Marcus Meissner meissner@suse.de writes:
Marcus> Hi, Apparently distributing even mp3 decoders is not royaltee Marcus> free anymore, according to the slashdot thread and the Thomson Marcus> MultiMedia pages.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/vza-29.08.02-000/ (german) tell about a Thompson Statement that free decoders are still royalty free. The Thompson statement in in english.
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