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Re: MPlayer

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:49:57AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.

Don't US patents last 20 years now?  Or does that only apply to patents
filed / approved / whatever after the date of the change?

> Unless Debian is actually served with a cease-and-desist and the claim
> looks legitimate, no bug-filing should happen.

I'm happy to cede to your authority.  But this is a different way of
handling a patent threat than was applied for the LZW patent.  Or did Debian
receive such an order in the LZW case?

- Matt
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