Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I am intending to package LAME (mp3 encoder). There are some patent limitations on lame's use in Germany/USA so I am proposing Section: non-free/sound.
Mark
LAME 3.xx
LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
http://www.sulaco.org/mp3
October 1999
Originally developed by Mike Cheng (www.uq.net.au/~zzmcheng). Now
maintained by Mark Taylor (www.sulaco.org/mp3).
This code is distributed under the GNU LESSER PUBLIC LICENSE
(LGPL, see www.gnu.org) with the following modification:
1. If you determine that distribution of LAME requires a patent license,
and you obtain a patent license, you may distribute LAME even though
redistribution of LAME may also require a patent license.
2. You agree not to enforce any patent claims for any aspect of
MPEG audio compression, or any other techniques contained in
the LAME source code.
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see the file "INSTALL" for installation (compiling) instructions.
see the file "USAGE" for the most up-to-date guide to the command line options.
see the file "LICENSE" for details on how to use LAME in non-GPL programs.
see the file "HACKING" for some general codeing guidelines
There is HTML documentation and a man page in the doc directory.
The HTML docs were contributed by Gabriel Bouvigne (www.mp3tech.org).
See www.mp3tech.org for more audio compression information and links.
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LAME uses the MPGLIB decoding engine, from the
MPG123 package, written by: Michael Hipp (www.mpg123.de) MPGLIB is
released under the GPL, while MPG123 is released under a more
restrictive agreement.
Various components are:
Copyrights (c) 1999 by Mark Taylor: new psy-model, quantization and bit
allocation
Copyrights (c) 1998 by Michael Cheng: new transforms and many other
improvements
Copyrights (c) 1995,1996,1997 by Michael Hipp: mpglib
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