Bug#636038: audacity: Add sentence about mp3 Thomson Multimedia licence.

Debian Nonfree debian.nonfree at gmail.com
Sat Jul 30 14:32:26 UTC 2011


reopen 636038
thanks

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> Dear Mr. Nonfree,
>
> Am Samstag, den 30.07.2011, 15:10 +0200 schrieb Debian Nonfree:
>> As Debian use shared library, users can't read that lame encoding isn't
>> really free.
>
> please refrain from filing bogus and unhelpful bug reports regarding
> topics that you obviously have only very limited insight in. For further
> education I'd recommend reading:
> http://www.debian.org/reports/patent-faq
>
>> As the lame or libmp3lame0 packages, audacity should add that in the
>> description :
>
> There is no such remark in recent lame packages in Debian.

Of course yes :

http://packages.debian.org/sid/lame

Please note that any commercial use (including distributing the LAME
encoding engine in a free encoder) may require a patent license from
Thomson Multimedia.





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