On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Eric Smith wrote: >> IANAL, but multiple lawyers have told me that it is generally a bad idea >> to go looking for patents, at least in the US. If they're brought to your >> attention, you should probably do whatever is necessary to avoid them, but >> you shouldn't actively seek them out, even just to try to confirm that >> you're not using anything patented. > > Hunting for patents is one thing (I wouldn't recommend it either), but > looking for obviously patent-encumbered stuff (like MP3 codecs) is another. >
That's not quite obvious anymore. Most MP3 patents have expired by now. Whether any of the remaining handful of patents are violated by an MP3 codec implementation needs some non-trivial consideration. Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
