Mark Lanctot Wrote: 
> But now that we have an open-source encoder (LAME) I
> wonder if this is still the case?
> 
> i.e. I wonder if LAME was based on reverse-engineering
> the Fraunhofer encoder and can it be shut down by
> them?
> 

There's a reason LAME isn't in debian.

Fraunhoffer and Thomson haven't done anything about LAME.  For a long
while their unofficial policy was to ignore open source encoders, but
that could change if they ever felt grumpy.


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