Question about WAV

[Patrick W. Barnes]

On Saturday 22 July 2006 18:28, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Micha? Bentkowski wrote:
> > Another question connected with monsterz package
> > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199611). It uses
> > .wav sound files. Packaging Guidelines says that content mustn't be
> > patented, and the question is: is wave files patented?
>
> afaik, no.
>

Even if there were patents on the format, they would have already expired.  
Keep in mind that this is actually a container format, and codecs used to 
prepare audio data could potentially be patented.  The codecs most often used 
are, like the container format, old enough that any patents would have 
expired.  As long as the program isn't using anything obscure, you should be 
safe from any legal issues with this format.  Note that the format is widely 
supported in other Fedora Core and Fedora Extras packages.

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