MP3 and the OLPC

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Jan 14, 2008, at 18:03 , Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:

> I'm trying to understand the legal state of MP3 versus the OLPC
> platform.  Looking at this wiki page:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Restricted_Formats
>
> Seems to indicate that handling MP3 requires a license, and thus an
> MP3 decoders is not packaged by default, yet I know I can open and
> play MP3s within eToys, which implies there is an MP3 decoder.
>
> Anyone have any insight into this situation?

MP3 support was removed in the joyride and update.1 builds.

- Bert -