[Ffmpeg-devel] patent warning frontpage

Diego Biurrun diego
Tue Jun 7 02:42:16 CEST 2005


On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:34:43AM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> 
> > I've just replaced the front page with an updated text, (almost) the same
> > one that MPlayer sports since yesterday.  The phrasing is more to the
> > point, even Ivan likes it now and xine is about to put it on its
> > frontpage as well.
> >
> > For those of you who have put it on their homepages (Mans, VLC people),
> > it's probably a good idea to update via copy and paste.
> 
> Just one question: what's the thing about Ireland?  I must have missed
> something.

The directive was started under Irish EU presidency and Ireland has been
pushing the hardest to get the obnoxious thing passed:

http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/politics/members.html

Diego





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