> > I may need a little help in this as this is my first real package, but I > don't want to do it if someone is already working on it. Is anyone here in > the know about this? is it ok to package LAME? > Brian Woodcock, rcw, has had this packaged and on his own site for sometime. ANY form of mp[123] encoding technically violates the patent, even if it was clean room. Yet another reason to use Ogg Vorbis instead.