[Foundation-l] MP3 and OGG

[Lee Daniel Crocker]

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.

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