On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:53:44PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:19:21PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > hi developers, > > this is my first message, i hope it's appropriate. there's talk going > > on on the users mailing list about lame and its absence from the > > package tree. i would like to adopt the lame mp3 encoder as a debian > > package and was wondering if there are any objections? is there > > already a maintainer? can this packet be debianized? > > It can be debianised, but it can't be included in debian, since it can't > be legally redistributed in binary form.
What do you mean ?? There are lots of packages included in debian in source form ... femto:~[0]# apt-cache search --names-only src [...] psp-samples-src - Perl Server Pages - Sample source code sgb-src - Documentation for the Stanford GraphBase. src2tex - A converter from source program files to TeX format files tetex-src - teTeX texmf source files nvidia-glx-src - nVIDIA binary XFree86 4.X driver nvidia-kernel-src - nVIDIA binary kernel module dot-forward-src - .forward-compatibility for qmail (source) ezmlm-src - easy-to-use high-speed mailing list manager for qmail (source) fastforward-src - aliases-style mail forwarding for qmail (source) mmix-src - Assembler and Simulator for Knuth's MMIX qmail-src - Source only package for building qmail binary package rblsmtpd-src - Source only package for building rblsmtpd binary package serialmail-src - tools for passing mail across serial links (source) ucspi-tcp-src - Source only package for building ucspi-tcp binary package > > -- > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED]