[vorbis] Fraunhoffer claims patents on other formats

[Jan Niehusmann]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:24:14PM -0700, Jack Moffitt wrote:
> This is impossible.  You can change license at any time, no matter what.
> This has already happened with MP3 and with the LZW patent.

There are ways around this problem. The patent holder could sign contracts
with several trusted parties, saying that he will never change the
license, and if he does, he grants the other parties an non-exclusive, 
unlimited, transferable license on the patent.

So if the patent holder screws up and changes the license, some of the other
trusted parties can start licensing the patent to everyone who wants it.

(IANAL) :-)

Jan

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