[linux-audio-dev] please help: enumerating library requirements

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Oliver Frommel wrote:

> How much is a license anyway?

Way too much for a Free Software developer like me. And how would
I recover the costs?

> Couldn't the companies
> making money off Linux get together and buy like
> a general Linux MP3 codec license?

Yes, they could but why would they?

Erik
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device empire (Walkmans, or PCs). But ... can't have both."
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