On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 03:59:27PM +0200, Thomas Lübking wrote: > I think you're missing the point: VLC without those patented plugins is > close to worthless to a majority of users - so would of course be gstreamer > or any other media framework. People want to playback their mp3's and h264 > encoded cat videos.
Then why is gstreamer okay to include? > Which *actively defended* patent does KDE/Plasma violate? Considering that knowledge of the patents can lead to higher damage claims, I won't list them up publically here. But if you use some well-chosen keywords you can find several patents that obviously covers code in Plasma on e. g. the Google patent search. Many of those are owned by parties involved in active litigations, and not particularly friendly towards free software in general. Some are also direct competitors to companies behind commercial Linux distributions. > The MPEG patents are not some sort of "asset" which is utilized in > economics wars (for offense or defense); it's their business model, thus > largely different from most other software patents. There are several patent pools that have a similar "business model", not all of them are multimedia related. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
