You will need to contact the licensor on how to comply to these licenses. The software is not sold and therefore the end-user becomes responsible for complying to the licensing and royalty requirements. VLC (and ffmpeg and libmpeg2 which it uses in most of these cases) cannot do this because they are Free and Open Source implementations of these codecs. User (commercial or personal) does not have to take care of this. With many products the producer pays the license body (in this case MPEG LA ( )) so the Some of the codecs distributed with VLC are patented and require you to pay royalties to their licensors. That’s not entirely true (particularly with FOSS projects like this one).ģ.4. Only codec distributors and distributors of public on-disk media have to pay license fees to the MPEG-LA. Home users who obtain the source code and compile it themselves are OK, because the source code is still protected by freedom of speech and compiling it themselves is not codec distribution. If they get a binary, the one who’s distributing it has to pay the license fees. Updated project.pbxproj that includes target for libmp3lame.dylib, added configuration for both 32 and 64 bit versions.“Home users” either get a pre-compiled binary from someone or they get the source code.lame-3.98.3.patched64.7z modified source (only the files Dll/BladeMP3EncDLL.* were modified).LAME for OS X: libmp3lame_osx32.zip (for 10.4+, i386 and PPC).Only difference from 3.98.3 is lack of debug messages. Exports more of modern LAME API, fixes classic BladeEnc API for 64 bit.

Consult your Country's software patent laws for more details. Please be aware that download and usage of these binaries may be forbidden due to patent legislation in some Countries. Note: LAME is LGPL open source software, see lame.sf.net for the project page.

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