Le 12/12/12 21:57, David Gerard a écrit :
On 12 December 2012 11:44, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Could we host h.264 videos and related transcoders in a country that does not recognize software patents? Hints:
- I am not a lawyer
- WMF has server in Netherlands, EU.
If anyone owning a chunk of H.264 had a problem with Wikimedia doing things with H.264 in the US, it could only be bad for them. I would suggest this aspect isn't really a problem.
Morally I must agree. Legally I emit a huge doubt on this assumption.
We had the SCO - Linux affair [1] a few years ago where some "unknown" company started sueing anyone using Unix based on copyright infringement. It only takes one company and a bunch of lawyers to start being sued.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_controversies