This is in reference to the post https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/what-happened-to-lame.32124/. I know it is several years old hence I'm not necroing.
The MP3 patents expired in April 2017, and Fraunhoffer IIS had chosen to not renew (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/mp3_dies_nobody_noticed/). I believe this means that the format is now public domain and we should be able to include lame in binary form again.
The main reason I'm asking is because I was installing xfce4 on my freebsd server, and among the things it installed was a gstreamer lame plugin. Now pkg keeps warning about missing lame package.
The MP3 patents expired in April 2017, and Fraunhoffer IIS had chosen to not renew (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/mp3_dies_nobody_noticed/). I believe this means that the format is now public domain and we should be able to include lame in binary form again.
The main reason I'm asking is because I was installing xfce4 on my freebsd server, and among the things it installed was a gstreamer lame plugin. Now pkg keeps warning about missing lame package.