2012/8/17 Nikos Roussos <comzeradd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 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 > > Unfortunately, yes, this is legally blocked in Fedora at this time. > > Yes, I assumed so. I'm mostly asking why, because it seems that there is no > patent infringement issue with twolame. I fail to see the reason, too, since the license is perfectly okay (LGPLv2+), and the patent covering MPEG-1 Layer 2 expired in 2003. But then, I'm no lawyer either. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
