My only demand is that the lawyer gets on the phone and speak to the AOM people. It has been almost one year! IANAL….
…But I have read the AOM license,, and I have studied the case of Nokia vs the other members of AOM, and HEIF. In that case, all the other lawyers claim that a) Nokia never held a patent on the parts of HEIF used in AV1/AVIF, and, whatever patent they claim to have would have already expired. That leaves all remaining patents within the powers of AOM and their licensing. The issue was not coding, but waiting to hear from the lawyer…. for almost a year. Robin Mills was willing to work on the code at one point, but several people kept claiming that, despite the publicly available license, and the work done by clothes, (including Exiftool), that Mills cannot put any code which reads the metadata (forget about even writing it), into exiv2. It ended with him running out of time, because no lawyer got back to give the go-ahead, (or to affirm that it could not be done). Ergo, it will not be done for exiv2 version 0.28. Well, that is what the closed, feature request thread says. (It does not say, “about a year,” but it has been over a year since the thread/response was started, and mills giving his stance on 0.28 was almost a year ago). Sincerely, Karim Hosein Top Rock Photography 754.999.1652 On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 17:19, Martin Straeten <martin.strae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why don’t you take over the responsibility for the project? And be fully > accountable for a possible copyright or patent infringement? > It is presumptuous to demand something from others that you are not > willing to contribute yourself. > > Am 29.01.2021 um 20:11 schrieb Top Rock Photography < > ka...@toprockphotography.com>: > > > My only concern is that, although AVIF is not patent encumbered, he > refused to add the reading/writing of metadata data to AVIF, until he > speaks to a lawyer. That has been quite a long time ago and so, my AVIF > files made by darktable seem to have no metadata. > > Currently, Exiftool is no better (in that regard). Worse yet, aside from > the most popular browsers, (Firefox, Chrome/Chromium), I cannot find a > viewer for AVIF files. > > Does one really need a lawyer to work for over one year to decide that the > reading/writing of metadata in an AVIF does NOT violate any patents not > covered by the open license? Is his lawyer billing him at US$20,000 per day? > > I am confident that the exiv2 project will be taken over. I just hope that > whoever takes it over has a lawyer who knows how to make phone calls and/or > write letters. > > I have other issues on AVIF support, but this is not the thread for that. > > >> > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > = > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
