[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On the LAME - Homepage, I've read the following: > >But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, >and now LAME is the source code for a fully GPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed >and quality to rival all commercial competitors. > >So I'm asking myself, why LAME isn't included in Debian...
MP3 encoding is patented in some countries by the Fraunhofer Institute. See: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package ... and the link from there to the discussion at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0006/msg01213.html Also the MP3 Tech "Patents and MP3" commentary at: http://www.mp3-tech.org/patents.html Just use Ogg Vorbis instead, it's unencumbered by patents. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
