Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Lame license, commercial use, part II

[Greg Maxwell]

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Mark Taylor wrote:

> 1. If you determine that distribution of LAME requires a patent license,
>    and you obtain a patent license, you may distribute LAME even though
>    redistribution of LAME may also require a patent license.  

Perhaps with an addition along the lines of:

", unless you are a party to a lawsuit dealing with above patent in any
country."

or perhaps

" as long as you don't agree the patent to be valid, and have only
licensed it to protect your intrests."

The idea here is that right now, with your exception some company could
buy a patent license then begin assisting FhG in going after free users
thus effectivly closing the software, even to it's authors!

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