On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:47:18PM +0100, Jordi Mallach 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.
Maybe the lame packager will do so... It's packaged but has not been
uploaded due to the patent stupidity. I hope he doesn't forget gogo! ;>
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<Knghtbrd> mariab - don't think Debian hasn't had some very stupid and
obvious bugs before
<Knghtbrd> of course, we usually fix ours BEFORE we release =D
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