On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:29:44 +0100 Diego Biurrun wrote: > On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 12:21:57AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > Do you happen to know about any other third parties holding patents on > > Theora and *actively enforcing* them by compelling people to pay > > royalties or by forbidding people to exercise their freedoms on Theora? > > No, but I did not look at the 100000s of software patents that exist > around the world. Nobody with deep pockets uses Theora, so there is no > incentive for patent holders to go after them.
You should not actively search for infringed software patents. AFAICT, the usual Debian practice to deal with software patents is not worrying about them unless they are actively enforced. It's obviously an imperfect way to deal with them, but on the other hand, should the Debian Project worry about each and every patent that has been granted in at least one jurisdiction, the development of Debian OSes would have to stop immediately and the Debian Project would have to shut all its servers down and declare defeat (since almost any computer program infringes at least one software patent, even though most software patents are either invalid or anyway unenforced). -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html New! Version 0.6 available! What? See for yourself! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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