Bug 809679

Summary:	mp3cat legality
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Corey Richardson (:Octayn) <corey>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	rawhide	CC:	corey, dennis, rvokal, tcallawa
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://tomclegg.net/mp3cat
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Last Closed:	2012-04-05 01:49:19 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Corey Richardson (:Octayn) 2012-04-04 03:16:07 UTC

Is mp3cat (http://tomclegg.net/mp3cat) legal to include in Fedora, or does the MP3 patent / licensing come into play?

Comment 1 Tom "spot" Callaway 2012-04-04 14:36:20 UTC

This is fine. It does not encode or decode, only validates the frames and drops anything invalid. (Some of the included scripts depend on packages that we could not include in Fedora, such as "lame", so please be careful not to package those in Fedora, but the core mp3cat bits are fine.) Lifting FE-Legal.

Comment 2 Corey Richardson (:Octayn) 2012-04-05 01:50:09 UTC

Thanks for the feedback, I'll go ahead and package it now.