[Pkg-mythtv-maintainers] Re: please remove twolame (patent infringement)

[Robert Millan]

reopen 419597
retitle 419597 please clarify legal situation in description
severity 419597 normal
reassign 419597 libtwolame0
thanks

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:25:17PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> 
>    I think you are mistaking twolame and lame. twolame (and toolame) are
> encoders for MPEG-2 layer I and layer II, they do not cover MP3 (layer
> III). Layer II, aka Musicam, was created by Philips and it thus seems
> pretty unlikely that Fraunhofer would hold any patent rights on it.

I see.  Sorry for the confusion.  Would be nice if the description stated
clearly that this package doesn't implement algorithms covered by Fraunhofer's
patents.

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