Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

[Richard Atterer <deb-devel@list02.atterer.net>]

Hi,

I have been waiting all along for someone to post this, but nobody
does, so...

As usual Heise got it right:
<http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/vza-28.08.02-000/> (German).

Essentially, the relevant change to the MP3 license was already made
1.5 years ago, but apparently nobody noticed until now.

Thomson tolerate violations against their license are far as
*de*coders are concerned. That's what the Thomson PR person probably
talked about... However, such a statement is not enough for us to keep
MP3 decoders in the distribution, I'm afraid.

  Richard

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