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Bug#90091: ITP: lame - mp3 encoder



On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:04:28AM -0700, Adam Conrad wrote:
> As I understand it, it's only the end-users of encoders (not the writers or
> distributors) who are subject to the licensing fee.

AFAICT distribution falls under use. But we'd have to see the exact text of
the patent to verify that, and possibly an opinion by a patent lawyer. (ugh :)

> In the end, it looks to me like it's the end user's responsibility here, not
> the distributor, and I'd hate to see a package not make it in because The
> Debian Project is going to assume that their US and German users are
> unwilling to read a disclaimer and act accordingly.

Yeah, but we can never be careful enough, who knows what their lawyers might
want to do to us...

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