On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 18:22 -0400, Delirium wrote:
Mp3s can indeed be both created and played with tools from Debian's 'main' (i.e. completely free, as opposed to 'non-free', which is non-free, or 'contrib', which is free but depends on non-free libraries). One such tool that can do both is Audacity (see [[Audacity]] on de:, en:, fr:, nl:, pl:, or zh:; Debian package 'audacity').
But the user has to download and install the LAME libraries manually, because they can't be distributed with Debian. Yes, users are off the hook, but distributors still have restrictions.