Re: Helix Player virtual team meeting
- From: Vikram Dendi <vikram helixcommunity org>
- To: Danilo Segan <dsegan gmx net>
- Cc: christian matroska org, gnome-multimedia gnome org, desktop-devel-list gnome org, gstreamer-devel lists sourceforge net
- Subject: Re: Helix Player virtual team meeting
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:40:17 -0800
Well, this is what would be really great, but there's one more catch:
they would have to release their patents for use in Free Software
(and I don't doubt there are at least a dozen of them concering any
one of their codecs).
Since the idea is to have free software available to everyone (one of
main tasks: no discrimination), we don't want to rule out those
Americans either, where patents are valid :o)
One of the problems with releasing the patents is that, if the codecs
involved just RN patents then it might be ok - but in many cases they
will involve other patents licensing by RN as well. It makes things much
trickier.
-V
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Vikram Dendi
Program Manager (Helix Player Project)
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