From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: i know it's not a bug but xmms should really get back support for mp3 what's the use for xmms otherwise? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.xmms 2.choose mp3 file 3.it's not shown in the playlist Additional info:
See the release notes for explanation.
*** Bug 74754 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 74789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
o Due to patent licensing, and conflicts between such patent licenses and the licenses of application source code, MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3 (mp3) support has been removed from applications in Red Hat Linux such as XMMS and noatun. Red Hat suggests the use of Ogg Vorbis(TM), an open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free compressed audio format.
*** Bug 75111 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 75629 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Considering that there has been plenty of time for the MP3 licensing scenario to be resolved by now, I'm surprised to see that Phoebe still does not include it, despite the fact that the first thing large numbers of users do is go to xmms.org and get the RPM to add support back in. None of the other distros seem concerned by this, and as far as I'm aware, Thompson/Fraunhofer have not said Free decoders are against their licensing. Is there still a solid legal reason behind not including this? I ask because as somebody who does free tech support on irc://irc.freenode.net/#linuxhelp, this is a question that crops up regularly.
The situation has not changed at all. The licensing for the patent still conflicts with the GPL.