[quake3] Mp3 support patch

[Paul Gnuyen]

Well hells bells my bad.  

If you statically link to it you're still in bad shape though, note:
"Thomson has stated that individuals using free MP3 encoders are not
required to pay fees. Thus while patent fees have been an issue for
companies attempting to use MP3, they have not meaningfully impacted
users, allowing the format to grow in popularity."

Means that people using your software will not be required to pay fees.
If you distribute this software however, or develop it you're not
protected. 

If you dynamically link it, it probably will make binary shipping a
bitch, but I'm guessing that's not the goal?  

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 18:40 +0200, Thilo Schulz wrote:
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> On Wednesday 04 October 2006 18:37, Paul Gnuyen wrote:
> > That's probably iffy legal under the GPL, linking to a non-free library
> > like that would probably require a specific exemption from the copyright
> > holder.  That is a non-free library that isn't "normally distributed"
> > with the major components of the operating system etc.  If this patch
> > linked to gstreamer on linux, quicktime on mac, and whatever abstraction
> > windows has, you're probably in the legal clear.  Fluendo has a licensed
> > binary mp3 codec on linux which is free for distribution and use, so it
> > would be legal everywhere as well.  Also, a programming headache for a
> > feature with dubious usefulness.  Transcoding to vorbis is probably the
> > sane thing to do on those few cases where only mp3 sources are
> > (legally?) available.
> 
> libmad is 100% GPL.
> 
> - -- 
> Thilo Schulz
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