Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?
On 12-Jun-2000 Josip Rodin enlightened me with:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:20:04AM +0200, Conrado Badenas
> wrote:
>> I've consulted WNPP page
>> (http://www.debian.org/toc/prospective-packages.html) and
>> nothing is
>> said about lame ("L"ame "A"in't an "M"p3 "E"ncoder).
>
>>From the WNPP page:
>
>
> _______________________________________________________________
> __
>
> Packages that can't be packaged
>
> * HotJava -- the license prohibits redistribution of any
> kind.
> * Courtney -- the licence is too restrictive.
> * KDE et al -- the QT licence is incompatible with GPL.
> * 8hz-mp3, bladeenc, etc -- patent problems with
> Fraunhofer
> Institute.
>
> L.A.M.E. is an MP3 encoder (:)) just like 8hz-mp3 and
> bladeenc. I'll go add
> it explicitely to that list.
>
Yeah, but haven't they removed all patented code recently? (At
least the latest beta doesn't contain any Fraunhofer code
anymore, afaik) Or am I missing something here?
Konrad
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