Re: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

[Raul Miller <moth.debian@gmail.com>]

On 7/18/05, Michael K. Edwards <m.k.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/18/05, Raul Miller <moth.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are you suggesting that the use of time -> frequency domain mapping
> > is not ostensibly covered by the presumptively valid patents?
> 
> If you want to know what I am suggesting, with regard to a particular
> patent from the Fraunhofer suite (which I have looked at _very_
> quickly and remember that in any case I am not qualified to judge),
> read http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/07/msg00141.html .

This seems tangential, and does not answer my question.

> > Or, perhaps that all other such techniques which have been in use
> > for quite some time (such as favoring frequencies which the human
> > ear is sensitive to) are all not ostensibly covered by the presumptively
> > valid patents?

[more non-answer elided.]

If you don't have a simple answer for these questions, please don't
imply that you have.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul