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Re: lame not in the debian package repository?



On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:22:52PM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote:
> On August 13, 2005 22:05, Rishi wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame' package is not included in
> > the debian package repository?
> >
> > Regards
> 
> Legal reasons -- mp3 encoding is patented.  Use ftp://ftp.nerim.net as a 
> repository for lame, mplayer, audio/video codecs etc.
> 

As Paul pointed out, it is better to use a tool that implements a
patent-free algorithm.

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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