Hi everyone. Reading all this posts about patent issues, I thought of something: if, by some wild chance FhG (or some other audio company) manages to prove in court that vorbis is breaking their patent rights, you could do something like LAME developers did: release only source code and let people do the compiling so that only users that are living in countries where patents on algorithms are valid should pay the licenses. So that future of vorbis cannot be threatened in any way... Greetings from FREE Serbia & Yugoslavia, Aleksandar --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Aleksandar Dovnikovic wrote:> > Hi everyone. > > Reading all this posts about patent issues, I thought of something: > if, by some wild chance FhG (or some other audio company) manages > to prove in court that vorbis is breaking their patent rights, you could > do something like LAME developers did: release only source code and > let people do the compiling so that only users that are living in countries > where patents on algorithms are valid should pay the licenses. So that > future of vorbis cannot be threatened in any way...Releasing only source would get FhG off Vorbis' back, but there'd have to be some rogue person out there releasing Windows binaries for the sake of getting more people to use it. I never would've discovered how much better LAME was if it wasn't for Dmitri Kutsanov putting out those precompiled LAME binaries. I compile it myself now that I use Linux more often, but I don't think most Windows users want to go download Mingw or DJGPP and compile it all themselves. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
> Reading all this posts about patent issues, I thought of something: > if, by some wild chance FhG (or some other audio company) manages > to prove in court that vorbis is breaking their patent rights, you could > do something like LAME developers did: release only source code and > let people do the compiling so that only users that are living in countries > where patents on algorithms are valid should pay the licenses. So that > future of vorbis cannot be threatened in any way...a) It's not going to happen. We do not infringe on any patents. b) In the event of an infringement ruling against us (again, isn't going to happen), source only release doesn't keep Vorbis alive. We'd be no better off than LAME, which no company on earth would try to use in operations without securing patent licensing. The whole bloody point of what we're doing is to escape the patents. Well, OK, 90% of the point. Monty --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.