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 the official repos.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419597
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