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Re: ITP lame



On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:06:38PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Sep 05, Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz> wrote:
> 
>  >If it was legal for lame to be distributed with debian, I can tell you now,
>  >it would be in the archive overnight. - But it isnt, so it wont.
> We have pandora for that, and I remember Wichert agreed to this use.
> What still needs to be done to have a debian section for software
> covered by software patents?

The problem is not "patents", it's that this particular patent also 
applies in Germany, meaning we can't distribute from non-us either.

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