Re: lame (again!)
James Troup <james@nocrew.org>:
> > Lame is already included in the Debian archives in libmp3lame_audioenc.so.0
> > in libavifile in debian/main. It's in shared library form, but appears to be
> > a fully functional mpeg-1 layer 3 encoder and not just a wrapper that
> > invokes a lame binary the user already has on their system.
>
> That's a bug then... (which I've just filed).
(It's bug 97198.)
Please could someone explain why it is "bad" if Debian includes an MP3
encoder.
Surely it is the user's, not Debian's responsibility to decide whether
a particular use of a particular program might violate a particular
patent in a particular country.
Edmund
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