Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS
Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Another example from the multimedia area are the patents on MPEG-2/4/H.264
> > held and actively enforced by the MPEG LA (licensing association) and the
> > many packages in Debian that support MPEG-2/4/H.264 (and all of them support
> > MP3 as well):
>
> Do you have any references regarding the enforcement of these patents?
MPEG-LA announced a lawsuit against Sagem in May 2004:
http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_04-05-03_sagem.pdf
followed by a settlement in March 2005:
http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_05-03-23_sagem.pdf
Earlier, in November 2000, Compaq was sued:
http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_00-11-20_m2.html
Arnoud
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