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Re: intent to package BladeEnc



Joseph Carter wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 03:54:50PM +0100, Alexey Marinichev wrote:
>> 	BladeEnc is a freeware MP3 encoder. [..]
>
>You realize that because of software patents and our lame policy that
>anything patented in the US goes into non-free that the only place this
>package can go is non-US/non-free, right?

No it can't.

The patent was granted in the US and Germany.

This rules out both non-free and non-us, as both would be distributing the
product from Germany.

We need a non-de. :)
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
"Yes I do believe there is a violent thing inside of me" -- Everclear


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