<div>Barry,</div><div><br></div><div>I am guessing you mean patents rather patterns. That said, I think you will find that those patents have not been enforced. They may have some standing, but I don't think any non-licence holder of media codecs and has been subject to legal proceedings in Australia (at least publically).</div> <div><br></div><div>(And put up your hand if you don't use MP3 on Ubuntu (without using Fluendo). And if you do, you are, IMHO and remember IANAL, morally clear, in that you probably already own multiple devices all that have full-licensed patents on them - hence have already paid the patent owners multiple times over).</div> <br clear="all">Regards, Martin<br><br><a href="mailto:MartinVisser99@gmail.com">MartinVisser99@gmail.com</a><br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Barry Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bazzawill@gmail.com">bazzawill@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Linux mint are able to offer there distro with pattern infringing<br> codecs by hosting there site in europe (I believe) where those<br> patterns are not enforced. In Australia I believe those patterns are<br> enforced so using mint is possibly illegal as is installing the non<br> fluendo codecs in ubuntu.<br> For your infomation only what you do with it is up to you<br> Barry<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> ubuntu-au mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a><br> </font></blockquote></div><br>