From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 11 23:47:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5735F15221; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:47:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA13770; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:44:50 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:44:49 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Seigo TANIMURA Cc: nakai@internetsolutions.co.jp, billf@FreeBSD.ORG, cpiazza@home.net, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/11013: port audio/8hz-mp3: source not distributed In-Reply-To: <199904120200.LAA63893@rina.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Seigo TANIMURA wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:15:53 +0900, > Yukihiro Nakai said: > > >> The situation will NOT change. The patent for mp3 is on the acoustic models > >> used on coding and decoding. Since 8hz-mp3 has the patented acoustic models > >> in itself, they cannot distribute their encoder. > >> > >> Considering above, we should cvs rm this port. > > nakai> I don't think so. > nakai> Use RESTRICTED, NO_CDROM, NO_PACKAGE or some macro will prevent > nakai> redistributing. > > > The problem is on the distribution of the original source by 8hz, not *re*distribution. > They cannot distribute their encoder by any means, so the issue is more serious than > RESTRICTED. > > The bottom line is: 8hz cannot distribute the source, we should not port it. > Exactly why should we not port it? More exactly, why should we remove the port? The mp3 patent is not in effect everywhere. And it doesn't really matter if 8hz can distribute the sources or not. They exists and people have them. The sources aren't illegal. Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. > > Seigo TANIMURA |M1, Nakagawa Lab, Dept of Electronics & CS > =========================|Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National Univ > Powered by SIEMENS, |http://www.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp/~tanimura/ > FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT |http://www.sakura.ne.jp/~tcarrot/ > (21st Mar 1999) & muesli.|tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp tcarrot@sakuramail.com > Wakako Shimazaki -> Risky|21st Apr, Debut Single 'My Life Is...' > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message