On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:53:42PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Andrew Suffield: > > >> Fraunhofer is not the sole patent holder. It even gets better: The > >> list of patents on mp3licensing.com (Thomson's official site on MP3) > >> is incomplete. 8-) > > > > All of these appear to be patents on encoding, or postprocessing (some > > of them also appear to be invalid). You probably can't have a patent > > on decoding in the EU. > > You deleted the part about the patent on a transmission system > involving compression. The relevant European patents are EP 0400755, > EP 0402973, EP 0599824 and EP 0660540. That's the usual mindless fluff patent, which applies to just about everything, like the (now expired) patent on linked lists. We ignore them unless we have reason not to, because otherwise we'd never get anything done. Still not a patent on decoding. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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