On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 05:00:10PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > As I read it, the patent claims disallow this from Debian. Is that > true?
Yes. MPEG-2 video encoding has a particularly litigious and nasty group holding the various patents on it. They're about the same as the MPEG-[12] audio encoding ones. > Can it go into "non-free"? No. > If this is not allowable, is it > enough to build it without the mpeg2enc code enabled or do I need to > sanitize the *source* package too? We don't want to give those arseholes any excuse to make trouble. Rip it out. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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