On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:47:18PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > Some idiots in a few of the world's governments have made the decision to > > allow patenting of algorithms. The owner of the mp3 patent in the US and > > in Germany has been lawsuit-happy over the technology and while there is > > plenty of prior art for the technology, nobody with the money to fight > > this in court has decided to fight this patent. > > > > I still don't see why mp3 players could not be packaged into non-us, but > > hey, if I can't package mp3 encoders, I know where to get the source. > > Yes, this sounds for non-us. I'm still stranged why such software isn't in > Debian if the patent is the "only" issue. > Ok, I'll think about it and then talk about a non-US upload.
Maybe the lame packager will do so... It's packaged but has not been uploaded due to the patent stupidity. I hope he doesn't forget gogo! ;> -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Linux developer http://tank.debian.net GnuPG key pub 1024D/DCF9DAB3 sub 2048g/3F9C2A43 http://www.debian.org 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 <Knghtbrd> mariab - don't think Debian hasn't had some very stupid and obvious bugs before <Knghtbrd> of course, we usually fix ours BEFORE we release =D
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