Lame and Faad license ambiguity

[Nicolas Dufresne]

Le lundi 05 novembre 2012 à 23:00 -0800, Baby Octopus a écrit : 
> Hi,
> 
> I understand Lame comes under LGPL. But why is it a part of ugly plugin? 

Some of the plugin in ugly are there because they are patented. Lame
encodes MP3 which require licence, at least if you are a company.

> Also, FAAD is covered under GPL. Why is it a bad plugin?

Some plugins are in -bad because they don't have enough unit tests, or
they lack a maintainer to move them to -good.

regards,
Nicolas