But if by chance you do want to use lame to make MP3s (I think that in addition to being patent free that ogg also sounds better) you can get unofficial debs from deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 08:57:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > starfire@dplanet.ch wrote: > >On the LAME - Homepage, I've read the following: > > > >But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, > >and now LAME is the source code for a fully GPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed > >and quality to rival all commercial competitors. > > > >So I'm asking myself, why LAME isn't included in Debian... > > MP3 encoding is patented in some countries by the Fraunhofer Institute. > See: > > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package > > ... and the link from there to the discussion at: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0006/msg01213.html > > Also the MP3 Tech "Patents and MP3" commentary at: > > http://www.mp3-tech.org/patents.html > > Just use Ogg Vorbis instead, it's unencumbered by patents. > > -- > Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- BOFH excuse #109: The electricity substation in the car park blew up.
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