> > Hello. Can anyone report what is going on with the EU software patents? > > How they would affect immediately the audio and graphics development > > we are doing? Xine? Sodipodi? Others? > > I suppose you wouldn't be allowed to control one oscillator's > frequency with the output of another oscillator using more than about > 10 Hz because that is Frequency Modulation and Yamaha has a patent on > that. But I'm no lawyer.
The FM patents expired a while ago... I may be _completely_ wrong but I seem to remember they did not cover the principle of fm for audio synthesis but a certain implementation in hardware. -- Fernando
