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

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Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

Florian Weimer

2004-12-27, 5:52 pm

* Andrew Suffield:

>
> 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.

Quite a number of licensees disagree with your assessment of the
situation, and I'm sure at least some of them have paid actual patent
lawyers.

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