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

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Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

Andrew Suffield

2004-12-27, 5:52 pm

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:53:42PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Andrew Suffield:
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> You deleted the part about the patent on a transmission system
> involving compression. The relevant European patents are EP 0400755,
> EP 0402973, EP 0599824 and EP 0660540.

That's the usual mindless fluff patent, which applies to just about
everything, like the (now expired) patent on linked lists. We ignore
them unless we have reason not to, because otherwise we'd never get
anything done.

Still not a patent on decoding.

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