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Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?



* Andrew Suffield:

>> 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.

Quite a number of licensees disagree with your assessment of the
situation, and I'm sure at least some of them have paid actual patent
lawyers.



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