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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players
From:       Dāvis Mosāns <davispuh () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-08-04 16:29:27
Message-ID: CAOE4rSw=tg4AqRNB6AanAvGQg+ZxDFu01qEUqaSuMjQSFrw6Qg () mail ! gmail ! com
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2015-08-04 19:04 GMT+03:00 Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking@gmail.com>:
> On Dienstag, 4. August 2015 17:41:35 CEST, Martin Sandsmark wrote:
>
>> since the free decoder apparently isn't available anymore
>
>
> http://www.oneplaydirect.com/oneplay/oneplay-mp3-decoder/
>
> Most stuff ain't for free, though (and unlike the mp3 thing, binary only),
> but still "legal" (even in the US)
>
> http://www.oneplaydirect.com/oneplay/oneplay-codec-pack/
>
> So the difference is that you can use gstreamer to legally playback all cool
> stuff (but of course everyone with a brain is going to use gst-ugly)
>


LOL, from that oneplay mp3 page "Issues to be aware of"
> if you ship GStreamer with our binary MP3 plug-in, you need to be sure that
> you don't ship any GPL-licensed plug-ins that could end up being used
> together with the MP3 plug-in, as this would be a violation of the GPL.
> You also need to make sure you don't ship any GPL-licensed players which
> would use this plug-in.

So basically even if you wanted to use it legally you can't use most of players
as almost everything is GPL... of course you don't have to abide by it but then
what was point of trying to do it legally as you can do it easier in
other ways...

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