-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/16/07 03:01, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > While talking about Debian in a LUG meet, someone pointed out that > Debian's distributions could play MP3s out-of-the-box (Etch > included). This is unlike the Fedora/Ubuntu policy of not making > available the (supposedly) patent encumbred codecs (decoders, at > least) by default, on the install CD. > > I tried to search for the Debian take on this issue (mailing list > discussion or bug report), but couldn't find the definitive > discussion. Could someone please point me to it?
I *think* that the big patent issue is between /playing/ MP3s and /encoding/ them. lame is over at www.debian-multimedia.org, whereas mpg123 is an official Debian package. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGm7Q6S9HxQb37XmcRAl4RAJ9IQuyJdOKWcZP2WlMAPMaG1o/33wCgzmKP 78j9XsFDRfVp8vdwWmK1WTg= =6gvY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
