On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:22:52PM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: > On August 13, 2005 22:05, Rishi wrote: > > Hi > > > > Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame' package is not included in > > the debian package repository? > > > > Regards > > Legal reasons -- mp3 encoding is patented. Use ftp://ftp.nerim.net as a > repository for lame, mplayer, audio/video codecs etc. >
As Paul pointed out, it is better to use a tool that implements a patent-free algorithm. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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