Re: twolame - legal

2012-08-17 Thread Nikos Roussos
On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 09:47 -0400, Tom Callaway wrote: On 08/16/2012 05:27 AM, Nikos Roussos wrote: I happened to notice that twolame is currently on rpmfusion. Is there a legal reason for that? twolame is an MP2 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer II) encoder (not mp3), which seems to be a free (as

twolame - legal

2012-08-16 Thread Nikos Roussos
I happened to notice that twolame is currently on rpmfusion. Is there a legal reason for that? twolame is an MP2 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer II) encoder (not mp3), which seems to be a free (as free of patents) codec. There was a similar discussion on Debian and they concluded that it's ok to have it on

Re: twolame - legal

2012-08-16 Thread Tom Callaway
On 08/16/2012 05:27 AM, Nikos Roussos wrote: I happened to notice that twolame is currently on rpmfusion. Is there a legal reason for that? twolame is an MP2 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer II) encoder (not mp3), which seems to be a free (as free of patents) codec. There was a similar discussion on

Re: twolame - legal

2012-08-16 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Nikos Roussos comzer...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I happened to notice that twolame is currently on rpmfusion. Is there a legal reason for that? twolame is an MP2 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer II) encoder (not mp3), which seems to be a free (as free of patents) codec.