[Fsfe-uk] Europe funds internet TV standard

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Page
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7259339.stm Just making sure this is on FSFE's radar - a Europe-wide standard presents great opportunities and great risks for free software. If we can make sure that the standard allows free software implementations, without patent encumberment, then this

Re: [Fsfe-uk] Europe funds internet TV standard

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25/02/2008, Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we can make sure that the standard allows free software implementations, The article says its based on http://www.tribler.org/ which is LGPL (I suggested a few months ago when I first found the project that they be full GPL but they

[Fsfe-uk] lessig.org site supporting Adobe's proprietary Flash format

2008-02-25 Thread Jon Grant
Hi Lawrence, Just looking at your page: http://lessig.org/blog/2008/02/on_why_i_am_not_running.html Did you know the site is embedding a proprietary Adobe Flash file there? I notice the video isn't offered in a modern open format like Theora (or even any video file we could download and