Sure, if you are making this device and only targeting areas where the patents do not apply then its fine. But FIC for instance I assume will try to ship their products in US/Canada/Australia and large parts of Europe where patents on these things are in effect.
See my reply to Nils for a more elaborate explanation of why I think this is the case. Christian On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:34 +0100, Frank de Lange wrote: > Steven ** wrote: > > How does the GPL prevent mp3 and flash video support? > > > > -Steven > > > > On 3/22/07, Christian F.K. Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Gnash would probably be of no interest to any shipping a commercial > >> product as the GPL license of it will conflict with enabling mp3 and > >> flash video support. swfdec is LGPL though so as long as the mp3 and > >> flash video support comes from external libraries it will be fine. > > It doesn't. I think Christian mixes up the (anti) software-patent > provisions in the GPL (v2 and after) with a total prohibition of > implementation of patented material. Even disregarding this there are > still many sane regions in the world where mathematical algorithms are > not patentable. > > So Gnash and swfdec are both fine candidates for inclusion in a free > software driven device as far as I can see. > > Cheers//Frank > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
