On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:44:03PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 18:34, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Also since this depends on mpg321 it'd have to be in non-US.
>
> Certainly not. mpg321 isn't in non-US now, and probably won't ever be.
currently non-US is the only place where it can be without breaking law.
> However, if the time comes that we think it's necessary to move mp3
> players to non-*FREE*, I'm going to ask that mpg321 be removed from
> Debian altogether.
having mp3 players in non-free would still be illegal. mpg321 is free
software that complies to DFSG and there's no reason to put it in
non-free or non-free/non-US.
the idea is to have an mp3 to ogg conversion tool in non-US for some time,
untill the so-called legislative insanity reaches europe.
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
