Bug#347832: ITP: mpc123 -- Command-line Musepack audio player
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:32:39PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> If it's based on the MPEG algorithms then it's also subject to the MPEG
> patents.
> [...]
> It seems to me that the benefits of OGG over MPC (as you describe it) are so
> great that there's no benefit in creating a new "non-US" archive for it.
mpc123 uses libmpcdec which are in the main debian pool, so it seems
there aren't such legal issues, it can be accepted in the main debian
archive.
Cheers,
Daniele
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