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Date:      Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:15:53 +0900
From:      =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCQ2YwZhsoQiAbJEI5LEduGyhC?= <nakai@internetsolutions.co.jp>
To:        Seigo TANIMURA <tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp>
Cc:        billf@FreeBSD.org, Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/11013: port audio/8hz-mp3: source not distributed
Message-ID:  <37114949.7687D434@internetsolutions.co.jp>
References:  <199904081345.GAA33147@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990411223259I.tanimura@sakuramail.com>

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Seigo TANIMURA wrote:
> 
> 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.

I don't think so.
Use RESTRICTED, NO_CDROM, NO_PACKAGE or some macro will prevent
redistributing.
(Why there isn't NO_FTP in bsd.port.mk?)

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Yukihiro Nakai


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