[vorbis] Low bitrate: when?

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Unfortunately, these are not protectable by the GPL or otherwise. Copyright
> doesn't guard ideas, and there is too much 'obviousness' and prior-art to
> justify patenting them.

In fact, not being patentable (or at least not infringing on any patents) was
a design requirement for Vorbis.


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Stan Seibert

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