svn commit: r475450 - head/audio/lame
Mathieu Arnold
mat at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 27 21:11:02 UTC 2018
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 06:19:21PM +0000, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> +LICENSE_TEXT_PATENTS= http://www.mp3licensing.com/ only talks about the FhG and Technicolor patent portfolio \
> + but there are also portfolios from Sisvel (from Philips) and \
> + Nokia (from AT&T -> Lucent -> Alcatel). \
> + Some "old" patents are now expired, but there are more recent MP3 patents. Some \
> + of the more recent ones are multi-channel related, which is not implemented in LAME. \
> + There was no investigation (in the LAME project) about which patent exists, which \
> + one is implemented in LAME, and which one is not (yet) expired. As such it is not \
> + known if LAME could now be distributed as a binary package or not. \
> + Linux distributions seem to go the "let's see if get sued" way, FreeBSD does not \
> + follow this.
This is really, really too long, please put this in a file.
--
Mathieu Arnold
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