[vorbis] Patents

[Dan Hollis]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Freya wrote:
> I get curious about the RLE patent. I heard Someone
> has a patent on run length encoding and I wonder how
> long they have had it because I remember RLE code
> running on a sinclair spectrum in the 80's before the
> whole patenting thing, so there is very clear prior
> art on this but someone claims to have a patent on
> this!?

RLE prior art dates back to the 60s. So even if it was patented back then
it would have long expired by now. There is plenty of demonstrable RLE
prior art so I would ignore any RLE patents.

-Dan

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