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Re: [users] Re: Where's lame



On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:19:50PM +0100, Paul Martin wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:09:51PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> 
> > OTOH, isn't a license just required for *using* software that falls
> > under the patent -- in contrast to just distributing it? How is
> > distributing lame different from distributing implementations of RSA
> > one year ago? We did that.
> 
> The RSA patent was only valid in the USA, an oversight on RSA's part.
> That's the difference. With Fraunhofer being a German company, they have
> obtained patents in Europe as well as the USA.

Would there be a problem with an installer-package for lame?

--Adam

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Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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