Re: MPlayer

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:33:49AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:26:34PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:08:42AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > What litigation is current for infringing use of a patent related the JPEG
> > > standard?
> > 
> > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/23/0138200&tid=155&tid=152&tid=123
> 
> Yeehah, it's GIF all over again.  Goat f**kers.
> 
> Oh, what fun and games to file all the bugs to get the code removed for a
> few years.

It expires in October anyway. Unless Debian is actually served with a
cease-and-desist and the claim looks legitimate, no bug-filing should
happen.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]