On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > My understanding is that Debian declares a work non-free if a holder > > of a software idea patent is *actively enforcing* a patent that covers > > the work, such that Debian cannot distrigute the work as free > > software. > > Is there a known case where a holder actively enforces a patent that > covers MPEG-4 video encoding? I am asking, because x264 has been > removed out of the Debian archive and there are video codecs > disabled in Debian's FFMPEG...
Search for "MPEG LA patent litigation", for starters. Don Armstrong -- A Democracy lead by politicians and political parties, fails. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]