On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:30:57PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Andrew Suffield: > > >> Yet mpg321 is in main. This comes from the misunderstanding that no > >> royalties are required for decoders (as opposed to encoders). This is > >> not true, though. > > > > Fraunhoffer only have patents on encoders, not decoders. > > 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. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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