Re: Mp3 encoders

2000-01-08 Thread Joseph Carter
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 > >

Re: Mp3 encoders

2000-01-08 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:34:25PM +0100, Bart Schuller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:23:15PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Jordi Mallach wrote: > > > The other day I was wondering why there aren't any Mp3 encoders in the > > > distribution. Is there any law that prevents us from including

Re: Mp3 encoders

2000-01-08 Thread Bart Schuller
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:23:15PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Jordi Mallach wrote: > > The other day I was wondering why there aren't any Mp3 encoders in the > > distribution. Is there any law that prevents us from including them? > > There are patent issues that prevent their inclusion, iirc.

Re: Mp3 encoders

2000-01-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Jordi Mallach wrote: > Hello!, > > The other day I was wondering why there aren't any Mp3 encoders in the > distribution. Is there any law that prevents us from including them? There are patent issues that prevent their inclusion, iirc. Regards, Joey -- The good thing about standards

Re: Mp3 encoders

2000-01-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:31:44PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > The other day I was wondering why there aren't any Mp3 encoders in the > distribution. Is there any law that prevents us from including them? Some idiots in a few of the world's governments have made the decision to allow patenting o

Mp3 encoders

2000-01-08 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hello!, The other day I was wondering why there aren't any Mp3 encoders in the distribution. Is there any law that prevents us from including them? If there isn't, I think I will try to package one, BladeEnc for example. Somebody in another list told me there were law issues with these programs,

Oaklisp sponsor request

2000-01-08 Thread Barak Pearlmutter
I have packaged Oaklisp for Debian. It's pretty straightforward, as I'm the upstream author. Anyway, I've put a debian package below its web site, http://www.cs.unm.edu/~bap/oaklisp/. It seems to be in good shape as it stands: builds on both slink and potato, everything seems to work okay. Coul