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| author | Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> | 2017-05-07 15:37:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> | 2017-05-07 15:37:33 +0000 |
| commit | 20dee0d5bb3ca3b57fef9ad7825e2c533724381b (patch) | |
| tree | 69a7e7e87d6a1fffcb50300af85242055669f1c0 /audio/lame | |
| parent | 3a40ebcff8cf321075c6f1d5e99328a31d9a9a05 (diff) | |
| download | ports-20dee0d5bb3ca3b57fef9ad7825e2c533724381b.tar.gz ports-20dee0d5bb3ca3b57fef9ad7825e2c533724381b.zip | |
Clarify the patent issues in a comment given recent enquiries.
This port is still restricted.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=440340
Diffstat (limited to 'audio/lame')
| -rw-r--r-- | audio/lame/Makefile | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/audio/lame/Makefile b/audio/lame/Makefile index 7d714cd1a6c6..cd28d02a09f9 100644 --- a/audio/lame/Makefile +++ b/audio/lame/Makefile @@ -15,7 +15,17 @@ USE_LDCONFIG= yes GNU_CONFIGURE= yes CONFIGURE_ARGS= --enable-nasm --enable-mp3rtp --disable-gtktest -RESTRICTED= patent issues, see http://www.mp3licensing.com/ +RESTRICTED= patent issues +# http://www.mp3licensing.com/ only talks about the FhG and Technicolor patent portfolio +# but there are also portfolios from Sisvel (from Philips) and +# Nokia (from AT&T -> Lucent -> Alcatel). +# Some "old" patents are now expired, but there are more recent MP3 patents. Some +# of the more recent ones are multi-channel related, which is not implemented in LAME. +# There was no investigation (in the LAME project) about which patent exists, which +# one is implemented in LAME, and which one is not (yet) expired. As such it is not +# known if LAME could now be distributed as a binaty package or not. +# Linux distributions seem to go the "let's see if get sued" way, FreeBSD doesn't +# follow this. DOC_FILES= API LICENSE README TODO USAGE |