Lame encoding and licensing

I'm sorry if this matter has been done to death, however there is a small aspect of the licensing that I'd like to clarify.

I wish to distribute a commercial application that uses Lame to write audio to an mp3 file.

In https://lame.sourceforge.io/license.txt it says:

"[The decoding functions] may not be used by any program not released under the GPL unless you obtain such permission from the MPG123 project (www.mpg123.de)<http://www.mpg123.de)>."

So, if I only use the encoding functions from my code, is this a non-issue?

Thanks,
Al.