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Re: Yaakov: sox?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 15:51:10 +0100
- Subject: Re: Yaakov: sox?
- References: <20111225061336.GA25506@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <1324940602.1336.24.camel@YAAKOV04> <20111226235950.GA22138@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <1324947262.1336.36.camel@YAAKOV04> <20111227044024.GA22479@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
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On Dec 26 23:40, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.
Along the lines of Fedora is fine.
Corinna
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