Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms

[wpmills@Mills-USA.com (W. Paul Mills)]

kkto@csis.hku.hk (Isaac To) writes:


>   * All commercial distribution of Debian must choose either to take away
>     all MP3 decoding programs from their non-US distribution (or not
>     shipping non-US at all), or to pay Thomson accordingly.  Alternatively,
>     Debian can simply drop MP3 players from its non-US archive, which I
>     think is a more sane solution.

Are you saying even remove from non-free? Some of us have good 
reason to use MP3 files from 3rd parties. For example:
http://www.banjonews.com/

Paul







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