Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* andother codecs.

2006-05-04 Thread Matthew William Solloway Bell
> OTOH, it looks like these packages currently in Debian do have upstreams, > against whom the patents have not been enforced, correct? Do we know of > *anyone* who's been C&D'ed specifically for distributing a *subset* of the > code in these packages? If not, it sounds like the lack of enforcem

Re: Re: Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* andother codecs.

2006-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:11:38PM +0100, Matthew William Solloway Bell wrote: > I mean with respect to looking in packages to find out if they have a > coder or a decoder. > So, we have a document that supports a reasonable belief that the > patents that cover parts of the MPEG-4 standard are in

Re: Re: Re: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* andother codecs.

2006-05-03 Thread Matthew William Solloway Bell
> So given my idiocy I'm going to leave that detective work to someone > else. I think the general picture is slightly more clear than opaque now > though. > > MWSBell I mean with respect to looking in packages to find out if they have a coder or a decoder. So, we have a document that supports