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Brion Vibber a écrit :
| Is XviD legal in the US? My understanding is that it's an MPEG-4 codec,
| and that there are patents covering fundamental parts of that standard.
| [IANAL] Surprisingly, this isn't mentioned in the FAQ though talk about
| it appears in their devel list archives.
|
| I think we'd want some clarification on this before declaring our
| support for it.
You're right, I didn't think about this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XviD: Because of patent laws, XviD 0.9.x
versions were not licensed to people/firms in countries where these type
of Patents do apply (eg: US or Japan). With the 1.0.x releases, a plain
GNU GPLv2 License is used, no explicit Geographical restriction is
added. However the legal usage of XviD is still implicitly ruled by
user/firm local laws.
In Europe it's still legal (software patents are forbidden... but there
will be new laws about them soon), but I didn't know it wasn't in the US.
Well... I'll have a look on Theora, then ;-)
MagicTom
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