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and subject line please remove twolame (patent infringement)
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Severity: serious
twolame contains code (MP3 encoding algorithm) which infringes patents of
the Fraunhofer Institute. This falls in the "Software that can't be packaged"
cathegory in WNPP:
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package
and I don't see any discussion in debian-legal contradicting it.
Would you please remove it from stable, testing and unstable ?
(Yes, this breaks vlc and darkice, but that can be fixed later. Even for
stable, the "can't install" severity justifies a new upload.)
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2007, Robert Millan wrote:
> twolame contains code (MP3 encoding algorithm) which infringes patents of
> the Fraunhofer Institute. This falls in the "Software that can't be packaged"
> cathegory in WNPP:
>
> http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package
>
> and I don't see any discussion in debian-legal contradicting it.
>
> Would you please remove it from stable, testing and unstable ?
I think you are mistaking twolame and lame. twolame (and toolame) are
encoders for MPEG-2 layer I and layer II, they do not cover MP3 (layer
III). Layer II, aka Musicam, was created by Philips and it thus seems
pretty unlikely that Fraunhofer would hold any patent rights on it.
Regards,
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Sam.
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