On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 10:14:38PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 03:05:01PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 04:02:13PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > > > On 01-Feb-99 John Goerzen wrote: > > > > Why should it be non-free if it's GPL? > > > > > > the mp3 patent > > Which nobody has guaranteed is valid or defensable in Germany, let alone > > anywhere else. (I believe the EU does not allow software/algorithm patents, > > IIRC.) And which applies only to encoders. > > > > I don't see why we ought to let some lawyers trying to make a good bluff > > scare us. > > Fraunhofer institute holds the patent, we shouldn't take any chances. > They have already treathened to sue or sued several people who used > their encoder engine - let's hope that they won't get to the decoders. > Debian has been very paranoid to the vague licencing terms of some > progs in the past, from what I've seen. > > But that is not the reason why my first guess was non-free. It was > the fact that mpg123 is in non-free, and x11amp is (according to > the docs) based on it.
I already have it packaged. It uses plugins for the decoder so I think x11amp can go in contrib and libmpg123.so can be moved into x11amp-nonfree. /-----------------------------------------------------------\ |Stephen Crowley [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org | |GPG Key http://va.debain.org/~crow/public.key | \--- 8A8B 3B82 6EA7 CF4E 01A5 5B21 B378 981D D2E1 0D85 ----/
