twolame - legal

[Tom Callaway]

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.

~tom

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