[Ffmpeg-devel] Snow?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:32:42PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> if you want a certainly patent free codec you have no choice except using one 
> which is older then the expiration timespan for patents

No, that won't help.  People just go out and file patents on old
technologies again.  Given the abysmal quality of sw patents and the
checks done in the patent offices this works...

Diego