MJ Ray wrote: > I'm not quite sure what sort of statement about patents will > convince ftpmasters. Maybe knowing what patents held by who are > definitely infringed by mplayer is good, especially if none of > them are actively enforced, or maybe it is bad.
<ObligatoryIAmNotALawyerDisclosure /> This seems like a potentially bad idea, actually. I certainly can't cite specific laws, but I seem to recall from similar discussions that if a patent holder can prove a patent was violated in full knowledge of the violation, he is entitled to triple damages. In the course of researching patents possibly violated by MPlayer, one would surely uncover the presence of the same patents in code already in Debian -- the already-mentioned Xine, Avifile, etc. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
