Le 12/12/12 21:57, David Gerard a écrit : > On 12 December 2012 11:44, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote: > >> Could we host h.264 videos and related transcoders in a country that >> does not recognize software patents? >> Hints: >> - I am not a lawyer >> - WMF has server in Netherlands, EU. > > > If anyone owning a chunk of H.264 had a problem with Wikimedia doing > things with H.264 in the US, it could only be bad for them. I would > suggest this aspect isn't really a problem.
Morally I must agree. Legally I emit a huge doubt on this assumption. We had the SCO - Linux affair [1] a few years ago where some "unknown" company started sueing anyone using Unix based on copyright infringement. It only takes one company and a bunch of lawyers to start being sued. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO–Linux_controversies -- Antoine "hashar" Musso _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
