On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 01:15:00PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:29:44 +0100 Diego Biurrun wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:21:57AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > [...] > > > Do you happen to know about any other third parties holding patents on > > > Theora and *actively enforcing* them by compelling people to pay > > > royalties or by forbidding people to exercise their freedoms on Theora? > > > > No, but I did not look at the 100000s of software patents that exist > > around the world. Nobody with deep pockets uses Theora, so there is no > > incentive for patent holders to go after them. > > You should not actively search for infringed software patents.
I have better ways to spend my time. > AFAICT, the usual Debian practice to deal with software patents is not > worrying about them unless they are actively enforced. This is not a description of Debian's practice when dealing with software patents. For example patents on browsers are actively enforced, but Debian turns a blind eye. For some mysterious reason encoding software is treated different from everything else. Diego -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
