[Wine] winemp3, mpg123 Patent concerns

Wed Sep 2 22:46:33 CDT 2009

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Itacious<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I check WineHQ today and was suprised that the new dev version was released on a Wednesday, not a Friday. Then I saw "Use of external libmpg123 for mp3 decoding." [Shocked] Now MP3 playback is built in? Or does this feature only hook onto an external program?

Only if you have the external library installed. Or use
--without-libmpg123 when compiling to disable it.

>If it's built in then Wine is illegal in my country, where software patents apply. Or does software patents only apply when it's for profit?

Ask a lawyer, not the internet.

-- 
-Austin