Taking the patent issue further, don't you have to pay a license to the MP3 patent holders to legally use their codec (even for the binaries)? Not trying to put a damper on the integration as I think it's a great idea, just not sure about the legalities.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joerg Dietrich</b> <<a href="mailto:Dietrich_Joerg@t-online.de">Dietrich_Joerg@t-online.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I intend to add mp3 support to the svn codebase soon. It has worked<br>flawlessly with EliteForce sound data<br> > which is on the largest part mp3 based, so it is well tested. (x86,<br>x86_64, ppc, Linux, MacOSX, Windows...)
<br> > ...<br> > Protest now, or I will apply the changes in a few days.<br><br>No protest but some concerns here. MP3 is a heavily patented technology<br>and the patents are heavily defended. So this patch is very risky.
<br>But as long as we do not include any of the decoding routines in the<br>source (not even to make compiling on Windows and Mac easier ;)<br>we should be safe.<br><br>Joerg<br><br></blockquote></div><br>