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Date:      Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:48:20 +0900
From:      Seigo TANIMURA <tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp>
To:        narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee
Cc:        Seigo TANIMURA <tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp>
Subject:   Re: ports/11013: port audio/8hz-mp3: source not distributed
Message-ID:  <199904120748.QAA02417@rina.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:44:49 %2B0300 (EEST)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990412093124.13437H-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>

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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)


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