On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:00:47PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:22:35 +0100 Diego Biurrun wrote: > > [...] > > Who told you that Theora was not patent-encumbered? Have you ever seen > > anything to substantiate that claim? Because I haven't ... > > Well, Xiph claims it is unencumbered by patents, in the sense that > there are no patent-royalties that must be paid in order to > use/sell/implement the compression format. > > Quoting from http://www.theora.org/benefits/ : > > | Theora comes without licensing fees. Neither commercial nor private use > | will make you owe money to us. The Theora specification is in the > | public domain, its reference implementation is open source and subject > | to a license which permits inclusion in proprietary commercial > | products. On2, which owns patents that apply to the technical > | foundations of Theora, granted an unrevocable free license regarding > | those patents. > > I thought this was true. > Do you have any reason to believe that Xiph is lying?
Read the paragraph closely. They only say that *they* won't come knocking at your door. No word about third parties. Diego -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
