IMHO a very good idea.
(Would solve a lot of legal problems ...)
>[...]
> final user?) It should not be a problem, as most of the time, there are
> beta releases more frequently than a 30 days basis.
Why only the betas ?
We could also display on the stable versions a warning after 30 days if
the version is not licensed.
> [...]
> licensing company to sell Lame licenses, for the price asked by FhG of
> 2.5$ per encoder, or perhaps up to 3$ in order to cover admninistrative
> costs.
I think 5-10 US$ would be more realistic to cover the administrative
costs, like former versions of winamp ...
>
> I think that perhaps Proteron could be this company, as they've got a
> licence agreement, and are using some parts of Lame in their products.
BTW:
Who is LAME Communications and why have they this silly webpage under lame.org.
Did already ask someone to put a link to the lame-homepage on their website ?
A+
Christian
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