Well, apparently, no pure software solution can be patented (hardware can), least that's what I saw on the national news here in the UK 2 weeks ago. Clive --- >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 'speex-dev-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.
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2004-Aug-06 15:01 UTC
[speex-dev] Is Speex realy patent free?
Hi Carsten.>Read the stuff at http://www.swpat.ffii.org and you will see that >we - the open source developer - are threaten by patent lawyers >and that this could be the end of any open source software for >a longer time. > >See als the petition from eurolinux.org.The link <http://www.swpat.ffii.org> doesn't work here :( Clive --- >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 'speex-dev-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.
c.a.m@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:>Well, apparently, no pure software solution can be patented (hardware can), >least that's what I saw on the national news here in the UK 2 weeks ago. > >This is a widely quoted misconception. Do you think that if you replace a hardware implementation of a signal processing technique with a software one, the patent on the hardware solution magically doesn't apply? In a few cases, where the patent was very narrowly defined, that may be true. In those cases the patent is usually so narrowly defined there are many ways around it in hardware, let alone in software. In most cases a pure software implementation of a technique is just as subject to any patents on that technique as any other implementation. What cannot be patented in most places is a purely software algorithm. A signal processing technique is fully patentable in any country with a patent law, and the patent will hold up for any method of realising that technique. Regards, Steve --- >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 'speex-dev-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.
Hi Clive,> Well, apparently, no pure software solution can be patented (hardware can), > least that's what I saw on the national news here in the UK 2 weeks ago.Well, that is prety wrong. It is right on the paper, but the EPA which - i shame about taht - resides in my city have allready accepted ilegaly over 10000 trival patents on allgorithem and so one, so it becomes hart to fight them. There are some professor's who say's, that it is not posible to create a free VoIP solution wihtout breaking some patents. Read the stuff at http://www.swpat.ffii.org and you will see that we - the open source developer - are threaten by patent lawyers and that this could be the end of any open source software for a longer time. See als the petition from eurolinux.org. <p>I have also thought that every thing is fine, but it is not. <p><p>Thanks Carsten. PS: Send this to your friend so thhat they can sign the petition from eurolinux! <p>--- >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 'speex-dev-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.