On 9/22/16, 3:35 PM, David Stacey wrote: >On 22/09/16 22:58, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: >> BTW, you mentioned a legal problem. I am seeing that LAME is LGPL >>licensed >> and therefore should be eligible for inclusion in Cygwin(?). > >No, there are plenty of LGPL packages in Cygwin. The problem with LAME >is that it still has a number of active patents. [1] is a good write-up >describing the problem, and said patents are enumerated in [2]. > >Dave. > >[1] - https://lwn.net/Articles/178285/ >[2] - http://mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html
Thank you, David. My apologies for the late response, my junk filters have a mind of their own. Bill