On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:27:18PM +0100, Ole Tange wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Maik Merten wrote: > > > a) Xiph never claimed that Theora is patent-free. It is not patent free. > > So the quote: "Virtually every single patented algorithm used in mpeg* > codecs is also used in theora." is correct. No; the VP3 patents were not associated with MPEG in any way. Monty