Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:00:12 +0900 From: Seigo TANIMURA <tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp> To: nakai@internetsolutions.co.jp Cc: Seigo TANIMURA <tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp> Subject: Re: ports/11013: port audio/8hz-mp3: source not distributed Message-ID: <199904120200.LAA63893@rina.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:15:53 %2B0900" References: <37114949.7687D434@internetsolutions.co.jp>
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:15:53 +0900, Yukihiro Nakai <nakai@internetsolutions.co.jp> said: >> The situation will NOT change. The patent for mp3 is on the acoustic models >> used on coding and decoding. Since 8hz-mp3 has the patented acoustic models >> in itself, they cannot distribute their encoder. >> >> Considering above, we should cvs rm this port. nakai> I don't think so. nakai> Use RESTRICTED, NO_CDROM, NO_PACKAGE or some macro will prevent nakai> redistributing. The problem is on the distribution of the original source by 8hz, not *re*distribution. They cannot distribute their encoder by any means, so the issue is more serious than RESTRICTED. The bottom line is: 8hz cannot distribute the source, we should not port it. Seigo TANIMURA |M1, Nakagawa Lab, Dept of Electronics & CS =========================|Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National Univ Powered by SIEMENS, |http://www.naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp/~tanimura/ FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT |http://www.sakura.ne.jp/~tcarrot/ (21st Mar 1999) & muesli.|tanimura@naklab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp tcarrot@sakuramail.com Wakako Shimazaki -> Risky|21st Apr, Debut Single 'My Life Is...' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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