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regarding libtwolame0: possible legal problem
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Package: libtwolame0
Version: 0.3.12-1
Severity: normal
Maybe, this has already been adressed in some way, but I believe there
might be a legal problem with this package.
In the file twolame-0.3.12/libtwolame/fft.c there is the following
comment: (starts at line 27, only part of it shown here)
/*
** [...]
** NOTE: This routine uses at least 2 patented algorithms, and may be
** under the restrictions of a bunch of different organizations.
** Although I wrote it completely myself; [...]
** If it were up to me, I'd say go do whatever you want with it;
** [...]
*/
In my opinion, this does not really seem to be unencumbered code.
Just as an additional note: The same comment can also be found in the
LAME source.
Kind regards
Willi Neudeck
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Willi,
This has already been discussed in Bug#419597.
Mark
On Thursday 11 February 2010 08:45:38 Willi Neudeck wrote:
> Package: libtwolame0
> Version: 0.3.12-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Maybe, this has already been adressed in some way, but I believe there
> might be a legal problem with this package.
>
> In the file twolame-0.3.12/libtwolame/fft.c there is the following
> comment: (starts at line 27, only part of it shown here)
>
> /*
> ** [...]
> ** NOTE: This routine uses at least 2 patented algorithms, and may be
> ** under the restrictions of a bunch of different organizations.
> ** Although I wrote it completely myself; [...]
> ** If it were up to me, I'd say go do whatever you want with it;
> ** [...]
> */
>
> In my opinion, this does not really seem to be unencumbered code.
>
> Just as an additional note: The same comment can also be found in the
> LAME source.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Willi Neudeck
>
>
>
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