LAME installer and Fraunhofer
Hi all -
I'm currently working on a LAME installer .deb that will download the
dist10 reference sources at install time, patch them up, and compile. I was
searching frantically for a way to do this legally so the .deb could be
included in debian, but I've run into one specific brick wall.
Fraunhofer.
It seems, that although it's completely legal to distribute the LAME
sources, its other critical component (ISO's dist10 reference source)
can only be freely used for the purpose of reference. That is, if you're
using it to figure out how to write a decoder or an encoder.
I may be scoffed at for bringing this to the list yet again, but it seems
that even having a working copy of LAME on your system is completely illegal
unless you pay a $25 fee to Fraunhofer. Is there any way around this
whatsoever? I am eager to hear.
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..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... ..vanco@sonic.net.. ..aaronv@debian.org....
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