Debian Developers - Re: Bug#349693: ITP: gst-fluendo-mp3 -- MP3 decoder plugin for GStreamer

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Re: Bug#349693: ITP: gst-fluendo-mp3 -- MP3 decoder plugin for GStreamer

Josselin Mouette

2006-01-25, 2:58 am

Le mercredi 25 janvier 2006 =E0 17:08 +1100, Russell Coker a =E9crit :
> On Wednesday 25 January 2006 12:10, Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org> wrot=
e:
>=20
> MP3 software does not belong in Debian/main. Unlike many patents the MPE=
G=20
> patents probably have a good basis.
>=20
> Any software which is based on Frauhoffer patents (MP3 and other similar=20
> encoding systems) should be on an external archive.

We are talking about a MP3 *decoding* plugin. Like the ones we already
have in so many packages we have stopped counting.
--=20
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