Re: [Cooker] lame-3.86beta-1mdk

[Jan Niehusmann]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:58:04PM +0200, Jan Dittberner wrote:
> > we cannot distribute it (because of fraunhoser or whatever is
> > their name).
> 
> Fraunhofers patent is only valid for ISO based encoders. The
> lame source is now independent of the ISO sources and therefore
> not subject of the patent (IIRC).

You don't RC: lame is developed independently, so it's free of copyright
claims from fraunhofer. But it still uses patented algorithmns, and its 
not clear if it's even possible do write a patent-free mp3 encoder. 

I'd propose to modify lame so it only encodes .ogg files (which are, according
to http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/, patent free). It may write a message
'get lame with mp3 encoding from' if one tries to encode mp3.

Jan

Re: [Cooker] lame-3.86beta-1mdk

[Jan Dittberner]

Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> 
> Jan Dittberner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I put a new lame RPM in ftp.mandrakesoft.com/incoming
> 
> we cannot distribute it (because of fraunhoser or whatever is
> their name).

Fraunhofers patent is only valid for ISO based encoders. The
lame source is now independent of the ISO sources and therefore
not subject of the patent (IIRC).

There is an explanation of this at: http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/

Jan Dittberner

Re: [Cooker] lame-3.86beta-1mdk

[Thierry Vignaud]

Jan Dittberner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I put a new lame RPM in ftp.mandrakesoft.com/incoming

we cannot distribute it (because of fraunhoser or whatever is
their name).