Romain Beauxis schrieb: > Well, check for mpeg4 decoders in main archive.. > I think you are missunderstanding his point, because a patent is not directly > related to the freeness of the code. > If we were to remove all software that is subject ot patent threats, we would > remove most of our archive I fear...
To legally use MPEG4 you have to pay fees. Not only is MPEG4 encumbered by patents, they're enforced, too. Same for MP3. To my knowledge no MPEG patents are installed by default on Debian - for good reasons. Albeit the license of the decoder source code may be free the patent claims prevent that code to be really free. Although the MPEG-LA isn't chasing single end-users they're definately going after wide-scale distribution of "their" coding methods without a proper license. This effectively makes those codecs non-free. Maik Merten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
