Re: clarification: is "inactive" mp3 source code forbidden?

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On Monday 01 October 2012 15:40:57 Matthew Miller wrote:
> See: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/214
> 
> I'm just looking for a quick clarification on whether it's our position that
> mp3 falls under patented code we should avoid packaging even as source.

Hi Matthew,

I'm pretty sure the MP3 related sources need to be removed from the source 
tarball. See the 'xine-lib' package (#205798) for precedent. AFAIK nothing 
changed since then. So yeah, might be a good idea to make this more obvious to 
packagers.

Lars
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