Can we have audio/lame back?

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.
 
You can use the port to build a package and install it via pkg. Problem with that is you have to update manually using the same process. I haven't had any issues doing this, but can't remember if pkg autoremove pulled it since I haven't done this in a while.

I know this is mixing ports and packages but if I remember, nothing other than audio/lame gets built.
 
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