Re: MP3 + Patent issues in Debian
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On 07/16/07 03:01, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Dear Debian users,
>
> While talking about Debian in a LUG meet, someone pointed out that
> Debian's distributions could play MP3s out-of-the-box (Etch
> included). This is unlike the Fedora/Ubuntu policy of not making
> available the (supposedly) patent encumbred codecs (decoders, at
> least) by default, on the install CD.
>
> I tried to search for the Debian take on this issue (mailing list
> discussion or bug report), but couldn't find the definitive
> discussion. Could someone please point me to it?
I *think* that the big patent issue is between /playing/ MP3s and
/encoding/ them.
lame is over at www.debian-multimedia.org, whereas mpg123 is an
official Debian package.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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