We present recent results on light mesons based on Dalitz plot analyses of charm decays from Fermilab experiment E791. Scalar mesons are found to have large contributions to the decays studied, $D^+to K^-pi^+pi^+$ and $D^+, D_s^+topi^-pi^+pi^+$. From the $Kpipi$ final state, we find good evidence for the existence of the light and broad $kappa$ meson and we measure its mass and width. We also discuss recently published results on the 3$pi$ final states, especially the measurement of the $f_0$ parameters and the evidence for the $sigma$ meson from $D^+tosigmapi^+$. These results demonstrate the importance of charm decays as a new environment for the study of light meson physics.
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