On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:34:25PM +0100, Bart Schuller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:23:15PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Jordi Mallach wrote: > > > The other day I was wondering why there aren't any Mp3 encoders in the > > > distribution. Is there any law that prevents us from including them? > > > > There are patent issues that prevent their inclusion, iirc. > > There are patent issues, but I fail to see why they would prevent their > inclusion in non-us which resides in the Netherlands. > > The subject has been discussed before, without clear conclusions. You > could make a package and upload it to non-us. Then see what happens. Also, Joseph Carter wrote: > Some idiots in a few of the world's governments have made the decision to > allow patenting of algorithms. The owner of the mp3 patent in the US and > in Germany has been lawsuit-happy over the technology and while there is > plenty of prior art for the technology, nobody with the money to fight > this in court has decided to fight this patent. > > I still don't see why mp3 players could not be packaged into non-us, but > hey, if I can't package mp3 encoders, I know where to get the source. Yes, this sounds for non-us. I'm still stranged why such software isn't in Debian if the patent is the "only" issue. Ok, I'll think about it and then talk about a non-US upload. Thank you, Jordi
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