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Re: Intention to package: FreeAMP



At 5:08 PM -0700 7/6/98, Martin Schulze wrote:
>Ben Gertzfield wrote:
>>     Martin> Gooood.  Does it comes with its own decoding routines that
>>     Martin> are GPL'ed, too?  If so, does it run on the console or
>>     Martin> within X11?
>>
>> Everything's GPLed. It's in a very preliminary state, so it's
>> just text/console for now.
>
>Cool!  Another non-free package to throw away.  Thanks!!

Not so fast, MPEG 1 Layer III audio uses a patent-encumbered algorithim.

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