David, > Once was said OM was in sue trying to resolve this but I have no more > info on that for a long time.
You have a good memory! :-) Yes, we were working with the Software Freedom Law Center in New York on our patent strategy. There was a decision of the US Supreme Court that undid some of the ongoing work. Don't expect anything to come out fast, but it's still moving. Wolfgang David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote: > pattens as are now a days is a real PITA, no matter if you don't have > the libraries installed in the device,if you are cached by those > pirate... sorry pattens agencies in customs they just have to say to > the court the device is suitable to play mp3 and you don't have > license, and your parcel will be retained for months/years, no matter > the court final decision, you as reseller are fucked because you have > payed for a material you cannot touch. So orl you arrive an agreement > with the agency (+money,-less time) or wait for the lottery of the > court and cross your fingers to have a judge a little bit more techy > than the average, because if not, your parcel will be returned by > default, and if the judge has a bad day you surely will pay a penalty. > > Once was said OM was in sue trying to resolve this but I have no more > info on that for a long time. > > 2009/6/5 Al Johnson <openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk>: > >> On Friday 05 June 2009, Christoph Pulster wrote: >> >>>> It's more than welcome to see Openmoko Inc. is still very much in >>>> support of the Freerunner/GTA02 and will provide the community with >>>> support in areas like the hosting infrastructure as well as the legal >>>> side (trademarks). >>>> >>> Please remember the patent infridgements concerning MP3 (www.sisvel.it). >>> Openmoko Inc. did not solve this issue until today. >>> As a result, all sales inside EU are patent infridgments, all reseller >>> inside EU community have to live with the fact, that local customs seize >>> their Freerunner order anytime. >>> >> Openmoko removed the mp3 codecs from the images they supply, and from their >> repositories, causing frustration for many. I don't know what image they now >> ship with, but would be surprised if they haven't removed the mp3 codecs from >> that too. If it doesn't contain the codec it can't infringe the patent. What >> more do you expect them to do? >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community