[vorbis] Here is a link to what they say about "Other Formats"

[Dan Hollis]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, David Mitchell wrote:
> within the rights of patent law. Hell, I think the MPEG group
> still gives away the source for the ISO reference encoder for
> free. But don't think that prevents them from suing anybody who
> tries to use a mp3 encoder for commercial purposes.

It's too bad AES doesnt have a competetion for audio codec like they did
for crypto. One of the requirements of the competetion was that the
algorithm *must* be patent unencumbered.

-Dan

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