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Re: intent to package BladeEnc



On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 07:02:39PM -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> 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. :)

Uh.  non-US is in .nl, not .de....

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