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Jeremy Sanders <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeremy Sanders <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:01:43 +0100
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> AFAIK, turning on the freetype byetcode interpreter will require any user of 
> such a build to acquire a license from apple for the patented techniques 
> used. Are you sure you want this in contrib?

If that's true, are there also problems with the xmms-mp3 package, or was 
RedHat being overly cautious when they removed mp3 support?

Do any other distributions switch on the byte code interpreter?

Jeremy

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