From: David Stacey <drstacey@tiscali.co.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Id3tag and lame packages?
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 07:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c04af659-6d7b-70f5-04df-f8a2a7d6ff9e@tiscali.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D409A15B.B489%billziss@navimatics.com>
On 22/09/16 22:58, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote:
> BTW, you mentioned a legal problem. I am seeing that LAME is LGPL licensed
> and therefore should be eligible for inclusion in Cygwin(?).
No, there are plenty of LGPL packages in Cygwin. The problem with LAME
is that it still has a number of active patents. [1] is a good write-up
describing the problem, and said patents are enumerated in [2].
Dave.
[1] - https://lwn.net/Articles/178285/
[2] - http://mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-22 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-22 19:37 Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-09-22 19:47 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-09-22 20:55 ` Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-09-22 21:06 ` Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-09-22 21:58 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-09-22 22:13 ` Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-09-23 7:40 ` David Stacey [this message]
2016-09-23 20:50 ` Bill Zissimopoulos
2016-09-23 7:50 ` Csaba Raduly
2016-09-23 8:35 ` Bill Zissimopoulos
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=c04af659-6d7b-70f5-04df-f8a2a7d6ff9e@tiscali.co.uk \
--to=drstacey@tiscali.co.uk \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).