From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 81071 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2016 22:35:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 81038 invoked by uid 89); 22 Sep 2016 22:35:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_COUK,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=patents, H*MI:sk:billzis, articles, H*MI:D409A15B.B489 X-HELO: smtp-out-1.tiscali.co.uk Received: from smtp-out-1.tiscali.co.uk (HELO smtp-out-1.tiscali.co.uk) (62.24.135.129) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Sep 2016 22:35:36 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.5] ([79.68.221.131]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id nCaWbeuiYU65lnCabbgerl; Thu, 22 Sep 2016 23:35:33 +0100 Subject: Re: Id3tag and lame packages? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <76c024dd-6df1-6f5c-874b-bc8c09a209d7@cygwin.com> From: David Stacey Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 07:40:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfI0XCoidIqqucsmPPBM2orx6MHYq6uKszTzP7XvwZ9NT7S1o35y64C0Cl9Sc/zRWi0gbN5zWK8ZvqYrVVEecLP2ZEGgMI77iZVoAWSOR8fBiv2FUg7Zm TLza1ebyP/7WDWYfAPR5FrBhCralFiMWX7KaSBRVj8kSYlP3x0rR8DlI X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00293.txt.bz2 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