On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 01:01:53PM +0000, Will Newton wrote: > On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 12:56, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > > > > > It's all encumbered with patents. Encoders *and* decoders. > > > > > > Encoders only, not decoders. Decoders for anything probably cannot be > > > patented. > > > > Really? AFAIR every producent of mobile mp3 player had to pay patent > > grants, to be able to distribute his device. > > And every set top box manufacturer pays for their MPEG-2 (or MPEG-4) > licenses.
Those are the patents for the transport mechanisms. Still not the decoders. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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