Software patents Was: Include MPlayer in beta?

[David Balazic]

Alan Cox wrote:

>>box...when their isn't even going to a box set anymore(putting aside
>>that minor technical impossibility for the moment)...is going to be a
>>lovely little minefield of legal problems...
> 
> 
> Right. Lots of media formats are subject to patents that make it impossible
> to ship them in the USA.

Or Europe , see http://swpat.ffii.org
or any open source project home page, like http://httpd.apache.org/
or even http://www.mplayerhq.hu

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David Balazic
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