Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:57:29 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Seigo TANIMURA <tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp> 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 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990412105256.13437J-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199904120748.QAA02417@rina.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp>
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Seigo TANIMURA wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:44:49 +0300 (EEST), > Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> 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) > I have seen it. If we don't distribute the package (and the port is marked FORBIDDEN, so we don't), we don't distribute it in neither source nor source form. The *PORT* itself does not contain any patented code and is thus OK. Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. > > 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
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