Comments on: Social Radio http://floatingsun.net/2005/08/28/social-radio/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=social-radio Sat, 11 May 2013 19:51:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Law News http://floatingsun.net/2005/08/28/social-radio/#comment-92669 Law News Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:04:19 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/08/28/148/#comment-92669 Good post. Bookmarked.

]]> By: diwaker http://floatingsun.net/2005/08/28/social-radio/#comment-56 diwaker Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:31:31 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/08/28/148/#comment-56 IANAL, so I really don’t have anything to add — you may well be right, but I would suspect that Last.fm would have researched fairly obvious bit well; I mean, they’ve been around for a while now.

The LAME website says:

bq. The decoding functions provided in LAME use the mpglib decoding engine which is under the GPL. They may not be used by any program not released under the GPL unless you obtain such permission from the MPG123 project (www.mpg123.de).

Maybe they took permission or something?

]]> By: Henning Schmiedehausen http://floatingsun.net/2005/08/28/social-radio/#comment-55 Henning Schmiedehausen Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:07:54 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/08/28/148/#comment-55 They are in for a number of nasty surprises, probably including a patent law suit. Their player bundles mpglib which is clearly GPL (see lame.h e.g.), so redistibuting as “BSD license” is not really a good thing to do. And it contains all the MP3 algorithms that are patented.

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