Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:18288098.HdZyntMrDR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> BRM Resolution 23: Thou Shalt Use Patent-Encumbered MP3 with OOXML
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>| There are two more documents from the BRM meeting available now on
>| Alex Brown's blog:
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>| [...]
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>| If you open the zip file and look at the document titled PT-62A2.doc
>| and put it next to the Resolutions document [text], specifically
>| Resolution 23, I think you'll find that they say, put together, that
>| any applications wishing interoperability with OOXML in sound must
>| use MP3. This is non-free, being patent-encumbered. If you go to
>| Audiopeg.com, it tells us, "Audio MPEG is protected by a portfolio of
>| patents covering a large number of countries." Therefore, by my
>| reading, the proposed spec can't be implemented in free software and
>| in a backhanded way, the GPL has just been exiled again. What kind of
>| standard is OOXML if the GPL, which is what Linux is licensed under,
>| can't freely interoperate? FOSS is a new factor that standards bodies
>| simply must consider. It's not like the old, proprietary days, when
>| it was like a club, and everybody had similar business plans.
>|
Also (I forgot to mention this in the first posting) - please note that
ISO/IEC 11172-3 is not MP3. It is MP2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_11172-3
"MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (MP2, sometimes Musicam) is an audio codec defined by
ISO/IEC 11172-3. An extension exists: MPEG-2 Layer II and is defined in
ISO/IEC 13818-3. The file extension for files containing such audio data is
usually .mp2. While it has largely been superseded by MP3 for PC and Internet
applications, it remains a dominant standard for audio broadcasting as part
of the DAB digital radio and DVB digital television standards"
--
Jesper Lund Stocholm
http://idippedut.dk
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