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Date:      Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:32:59 +0900
From:      Seigo TANIMURA <tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp>
To:        billf@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>, nakai@internetsolutions.co.jp, tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/11013: port audio/8hz-mp3: source not distributed
Message-ID:  <19990411223259I.tanimura@sakuramail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 8 Apr 1999 06:45:53 -0700 (PDT)" <199904081345.GAA33147@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <199904081345.GAA33147@freefall.freebsd.org>

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From: <billf@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ports/11013: port audio/8hz-mp3: source not distributed
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 06:45:53 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <199904081345.GAA33147@freefall.freebsd.org>

billf> This port is already marked BROKEN because of the license problem.
billf> If the situation isn't going to change, someone should just 'cvs rm' this port.


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.


Thanks!


Seigo TANIMURA           |M2, Nakagawa Lab, Dept of Electronics & CS
=========================|Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National Univ
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