Re: MP3 Support
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:12:53AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Mon February 19 2007 01:51, Joe Hart wrote:
>
> > I'll still be putting the Christian's repo in my sources list, but I
> > thought that MP3 was one of the "questionable" formats that goes against
> > the DFSG. Perhaps I am wrong.
> >
> > In any event, I was pleasantly surprised.
>
> I find that mp3 and ogg are supported by almost any media player, even
> mp3blaster on the console. Lame isn't in debian though (the mp3 encoder).
> Even wma is supported by xine now and I'm sure others too.
True but doesn't answer Joe's question.
MP3 is a patent-encumbered technology for compression only. Players (IIRC)
don't require a licence. Whether that's DFSG-acceptable I couldn't say.
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