[vorbis] RE: Fraunhoffer patents

[Aleksandar Dovnikovic]

Tom Bishop <Tom at Truly.nu> wrote:

> A codec programmer friend in Russia http://www.nctsoft.com sent
> me  this link:
> 
> http://sound.media.mit.edu/~eds/mpeg-patents-faq

This question from the mentioned faq is the most interesting:


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18. If the open source community develops a new compression standard,
    can we use it without paying FhG?

Only if it doesn't infringe on FhG's patents.  These patents may or
may not be tied to specific techniques in MP3; if they are more
general than MP3, then it doesn't matter what coding standard you are
using, you are still infringing their patent rights.
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Greetings,
Aleksandar

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