Bug 809679 - mp3cat legality
Summary: mp3cat legality
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: distribution
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Bill Nottingham
URL: http://tomclegg.net/mp3cat
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-04 03:16 UTC by Corey Richardson (:Octayn)
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:30 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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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.
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