Oh, shit no, not this again!
Apr. 8th, 2005 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ibnekohttp://videolan.org/patents.html
VideoLAN is seriously threatened by software patents due to the numerous patented techniques it implements and uses. Also threatened are the many libraries and projects which VLC is built upon, like FFmpeg, and the other fellow Free And Open Source software multimedia players, which include MPlayer, xine, Freevo, MythTV, gstreamer.
Yeah. Who are my local EU representatives?
VideoLAN is seriously threatened by software patents due to the numerous patented techniques it implements and uses. Also threatened are the many libraries and projects which VLC is built upon, like FFmpeg, and the other fellow Free And Open Source software multimedia players, which include MPlayer, xine, Freevo, MythTV, gstreamer.
Yeah. Who are my local EU representatives?
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Date: 2005-04-09 12:43 am (UTC)What next? Ideally, holders would appreciate that OSS endeavors like VLC (a good player, and one I use now and then, despite the UI) aren't attempting to usurp their rights to said patents, less still in any position to pay for them, and could choose to (or be obliged to? Could be a plausible countermeasure) offer them at no cost, though that might give rise to some interesting license considerations wrt the GPL. (As opposed to now, where it simply pretends software patents don't exist and are not used in free softeware?)
Bah. "1-Click Shopping", that's all I have to say.