Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "LAME" in English language version.
The licensing program coming to an end is due to the fact that the last patent included in the program expired.The page's later caution about third-party implementation–specific patents is not about LAME's implementation. [citation needed]
This is what made it possible for modern MP3 encoders (e.g. LAME) to improve far beyond the original L3enc and dist10 reference implementations.