Ubuntu 1, Fedora 0

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Mar 20 16:00:24 UTC 2007


Scott van Looy wrote:
> Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:
> 
>>
>> Or, convince Apple they should release a Linux port of itunes...
> 
> Who would pay for it? The problem isn't that the mp3 codecs are patent
> encumbered, they're that the people who own the patents charge a per
> seat licence feee, afaik...
> 
They could always sell it like other closed source software. You can
sell commercial software that runs on Linux. You just can not use
GPLed code in your software. You can link to LGPL libraries...

Mikkel
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