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Re: Yaakov: sox?
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 06:54:22PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 18:59 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >I'd we willing to do ITP it, but:
>> >
>> >1) Is our policy still to not ship in the distro software which is
>> >patent-encumbered, per:
>> >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-09/msg00094.html
>>
>> Ok, then nevermind.
>
>sox isn't a problem by itself (it is available in Fedora), its only a
>question of which additional formats it supports (via codec-specific
>libraries), some of which are encumbered (AMR, MP3, WMA) and some not
>(AU, FLAC, GSM, OGA, WAV, WV, and others).
>
>That being said, should I proceed along the lines of Fedora?
I guess that would be Corinna's call since she made the initial ruling.
cgf