| Joe Wreschnig 2006-01-29, 9:38 pm |
| On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 19:58 +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 January 2006 17:40, Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Have we consulted a lawyer about this?
Probably not.
>
> iRiver will have more incentive to support OGG well if Linux distributions
> take a stand on this issue.
Hah hah. Yeah, sure. Or iRiver will just ignore us like they always
have.
(p.s. It's "Ogg". Not "OGG".)
>
> If there was a patent on the MS file formats then I would advocate removing
> support from Debian.
MS claims they've patented the Office 12 format, the ASF format, the FAT
filesystem, etc. There's a patent on 90-100% of the archive.
>
> Do we have any legal advice on this?
No, we don't have any legal advice that says Musepack is patent-free. We
don't have legal advice that says Ogg is patent-free. We probably don't
have legal advice that says *anything* in the archive is patent-free,
and I suspect if we tried we'd find out *nothing* is. I suggest you find
something better to do than witch-hunt every non-Ogg format out of main.
--
Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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