twolame - legal

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Nikos Roussos
<comzeradd at fedoraproject.org> 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

Debian also has implementations of H264 in the official repos.