From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Apr 12 0:50:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rina.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp (rina.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp [133.34.17.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A87015327; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:50:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp) Received: from rina.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rina.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7W-Naklab-2.1-19981120) with ESMTP id QAA02417; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:48:20 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199904120748.QAA02417@rina.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee Cc: nakai@internetsolutions.co.jp, billf@FreeBSD.ORG, cpiazza@home.net, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Seigo TANIMURA Subject: Re: ports/11013: port audio/8hz-mp3: source not distributed From: Seigo TANIMURA In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:44:49 +0300 (EEST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.70 on Emacs 19.34.1 / Mule 2.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:48:20 +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:44:49 +0300 (EEST), Narvi said: narvi> Exactly why should we not port it? More exactly, why should we remove the narvi> port? narvi> The mp3 patent is not in effect everywhere. narvi> And it doesn't really matter if 8hz can distribute the sources or not. narvi> They exists and people have them. narvi> The sources aren't illegal. Could you please have a look at: http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/legal/index.html#2.2 If we distribute the 8hz encoder by ourselves, we have to pay for the royalty because they developed the encoder by themselves. Lame(Lamer) has no problems. It is a patch, not an encoder... (at least they say so) Seigo TANIMURA |M2, 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/ (10th Apr 1999) & muesli.|tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp tcarrot@sakuramail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message