On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:34:26 +0300, Salonen Kuisma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok this statement was not fully considered. I am not aware of ongoing > legal activities inside Nokia and the legal issue assumption was about > Thomson / Fraunhofer statements about ogg violating their patents. But > again, that was just my personal assumption and I am not lawyer, neither > I know about ongoing legal activities.
As far as I know, xiph.org has been very careful about patents and the Ogg format and Vorbis codec are generally considered to be "safe". However, there may be an issue with the BSD-like license used for the ogg/vorbis libraries provided by xiph.org: this is the old BSD license with the "obnoxious advertising clause": "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution." This means that the docs of the 770 would have to include that notice. This may also be a problem when (statically) linking with GPL code. See also: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#OriginalBSD -Raphaël _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers