xine-lib: splitting off patented stuff

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Montag, den 12.12.2005, 21:58 +0200 schrieb Aigars Mahinovs:
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> BTW, I also question the need to do such patent partitioning - if you
> think about the crazy USA and Japan market, then you can not ship
> anything to there at all: the kernel itself has ~300 patents in it and
> god only knows how many more are  breached by all the Gnome software
> installed. In the rest of the world, software is not patentable, so
> there is no problem. In short - it is not possible to solve the
> problem for USA - it is hopeless, so why do you complicate the life
> for the rest of the world?

Hi,
it's not only needed for USA and Japan but also for most parts of the EU
and probably other parts of the world. I don't like it too but it's
unfortunetaly needed because of the ugly law situation we currently
have :(
The kernel or other software is probably more safe than multimedia
related stuff as there were already some patents enforced...

(otherwise probably most of the stuff I use from multiverse could
happily live in universe ;) )

Bye
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