On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 06:44:24AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
Hmmm, if my memory serves, it was the Good Old USA that until the late
1800s or so did not recognize patents from Europe or elsewhere. Only later,
under pressure from European nations, did the USA change its stance.
Now I guess
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:40:18AM +0800, Isaac To wrote:
So basically, because of the clarification of Thomson, the authors of
mpg321 (or any other GPL mp3 players) or any distributors (Debian
included) can no longer grant you a license saying you are free to
use, copy, modify and distribute
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) writes:
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Isaac To wrote:
If you look at the license of non-free software in the Debian archive and
read the copyright file of each of them, you can find that they allow the
binary code to be distributed in a Debian
Hi,
I've missed a couple of messages in this discussion, so sorry
if this was already mentioned before...
I'm not sure whether the administrative overhead makes this worth it,
but did it occure to someone, that somebody could sell the mp3 plugin
for XMMS or other players for a nominal fee of
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On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 06:24:27PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote:
I'm not sure whether the administrative overhead makes this worth it,
but did it occure to someone, that somebody could sell the mp3 plugin
for XMMS or other players for a nominal fee
Paul == Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul OK, I *know* it's been mentioned in the thread already, but in
Paul case people somehow missed it, the patent holders clarified thier
Paul position on August 29th, and I'm really getting tired of this
Paul thread. In short,
The XMMS people are probably right that they don't need to change
anything, because they are not selling XMMS.
Red Hat was right to remove MP3 players, because Red Hat is selling its
distribution.
Technically, Debian doesn't sell its distribution, so in theory Debian
shouldn't have to
David == David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David But Debian does encourgage people to sell CD-ROMs of whatever is
David not in non-free. If someone were to include an MP3 player on a
David Debian CD-ROM and sell it, that person would be violating the MP3
David licensing
Isaac quotes:
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent
infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues),
conditions are imposed on you...
^^
And writes:
Well, perhaps Thomson didn't have made the allegation yet, but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Klaus Imgrund) writes:
On the xmms website is a statement that nothing has changed.
I tend to stick with what xmmms has on their site - after all it's their
program.They would probably know that they are about to go to jail;-0
I agree with this. But some seem to think it
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