I am somewhat constrained in what I am able to say. On one view there is the position, held by some, that any hardware that is merely CAPABLE of mp3 decode is required to apply for a license. MP3 was removed from our images long ago and from the repositories. The requirements of the license agreement, without going into details, were beyond our financial means.
Al Johnson wrote: > On Friday 05 June 2009, Christoph Pulster wrote: > >>> It's more than welcome to see Openmoko Inc. is still very much in >>> support of the Freerunner/GTA02 and will provide the community with >>> support in areas like the hosting infrastructure as well as the legal >>> side (trademarks). >>> >> Please remember the patent infridgements concerning MP3 (www.sisvel.it). >> Openmoko Inc. did not solve this issue until today. >> As a result, all sales inside EU are patent infridgments, all reseller >> inside EU community have to live with the fact, that local customs seize >> their Freerunner order anytime. >> > > Openmoko removed the mp3 codecs from the images they supply, and from their > repositories, causing frustration for many. I don't know what image they now > ship with, but would be surprised if they haven't removed the mp3 codecs from > that too. If it doesn't contain the codec it can't infringe the patent. What > more do you expect them to do? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
