Irene/Others: > Since we've got stuck in the MPEG 2 codec legal issues, we are in urgent > need of these two documents. We have to have a thorough read of these > documents to makes sure that there's no violations. > > Does anybody happen to have a copy for share? Or kindly point me to > somewhere that I can find them?
I don't think the above email explains what we need very well. First of all, this has nothing to do with MPEG2. Instead the two ISO documents relate to MPEG1. Second of all, I do not think we are not stuck with any legal issues. We want to verify that Sun has the legal permission to ship the Fluendo MPEG1 plugin. This plugin supports decoding MPEG1 levels 1-3. The Java Media Player product is already shipped with Solaris and supports decoding MPEG1 levels 1-3. The same contract that the JMP product uses allows us to ship the same IP with GStreamer in the JDS stack. Since JMP supports MPEG1 levels 1-3, we assume that our contract allows us to ship MPEG1 levels 1-3. This also makes sense since MPEG1 levels 1-2 are subsets of MPEG1 level 3 so it would be unlikely that the contract would not cover all three levels. Our legal contract with the MPEG group references that Sun has permission to ship the IP specified in the above ISO/IEC documents and we simply want to verify that this does mean that Sun has permission to ship code that decodes MPEG1 levels 1-3. We have already talked with SunLegal and they don't seem to have copies of these ISO documents. Since we assume that this must have gone through legal review with the JMP project already, we are hoping that someone at Sun would have copies of these documents or know where to find them so we can have them on hand and verify that we are following legal process? Brian
