* Top Rock Photography <ka...@toprockphotography.com> [01-29-21 21:14]: > My only demand is that the lawyer gets on the phone and speak to the AOM > people. It has been almost one year! IANAL…. > > …But I have read the AOM license,, and I have studied the case of Nokia vs > the other members of AOM, and HEIF. In that case, all the other lawyers > claim that a) Nokia never held a patent on the parts of HEIF used in > AV1/AVIF, and, whatever patent they claim to have would have already > expired. > > That leaves all remaining patents within the powers of AOM and their > licensing. > > The issue was not coding, but waiting to hear from the lawyer…. for almost > a year. Robin Mills was willing to work on the code at one point, but > several people kept claiming that, despite the publicly available license, > and the work done by clothes, (including Exiftool), that Mills cannot put > any code which reads the metadata (forget about even writing it), into > exiv2. It ended with him running out of time, because no lawyer got back to > give the go-ahead, (or to affirm that it could not be done). Ergo, it will > not be done for exiv2 version 0.28. > > Well, that is what the closed, feature request thread says. (It does not > say, “about a year,” but it has been over a year since the thread/response > was started, and mills giving his stance on 0.28 was almost a year ago). > > Sincerely, > > Karim Hosein > Top Rock Photography > 754.999.1652 > > > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 17:19, Martin Straeten <martin.strae...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Why don’t you take over the responsibility for the project? And be fully > > accountable for a possible copyright or patent infringement? > > It is presumptuous to demand something from others that you are not > > willing to contribute yourself. > > > > Am 29.01.2021 um 20:11 schrieb Top Rock Photography < > > ka...@toprockphotography.com>: > > > > > > My only concern is that, although AVIF is not patent encumbered, he > > refused to add the reading/writing of metadata data to AVIF, until he > > speaks to a lawyer. That has been quite a long time ago and so, my AVIF > > files made by darktable seem to have no metadata. > > > > Currently, Exiftool is no better (in that regard). Worse yet, aside from > > the most popular browsers, (Firefox, Chrome/Chromium), I cannot find a > > viewer for AVIF files. > > > > Does one really need a lawyer to work for over one year to decide that the > > reading/writing of metadata in an AVIF does NOT violate any patents not > > covered by the open license? Is his lawyer billing him at US$20,000 per day? > > > > I am confident that the exiv2 project will be taken over. I just hope that > > whoever takes it over has a lawyer who knows how to make phone calls and/or > > write letters. > > > > I have other issues on AVIF support, but this is not the thread for that. > > > > > >> > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > = > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
but leaves you free to fork the project and include support for avif and no longer wait for the laywers. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
