Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

[Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>]

I demand that Tollef Fog Heen may or may not have written...

> * Chris Cheney
>> Its all encumbered, there is a separate organization MPEG-LA that strictly
>> deals with the licensing. It is quite surprising to me that ffmpeg was
>> allowed into main.

> According to rumors I heard, it was allowed in since other applications
> (xine at least, I think) already included it.  So it didn't really make a
> difference -- if we're infringing on patents with ffmpeg, we are with xine
> as well.

<URL:http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xine/xine-lib/src/libffmpeg/>

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