Debian Developers - Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

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Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

Andrew Suffield

2004-12-27, 7:47 am

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:30:57PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Andrew Suffield:
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> Fraunhofer is not the sole patent holder. It even gets better: The
> list of patents on mp3licensing.com (Thomson's official site on MP3)
> is incomplete. 8-)

All of these appear to be patents on encoding, or postprocessing (some
of them also appear to be invalid). You probably can't have a patent
on decoding in the EU.

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