[Wikipedia-l] Re: Theora and video policy...

[Marco Krohn]

On Thursday 24 June 2004 20:37, Delirium wrote:

> legally okay, and widely available in players like winamp and xmms, and
> even the encoders, like LAME, are rather common and have not received
> legal threats.

"have not received" is not much of a guarantee for the future; wasn't it the 
same with GIF? Programs using GIF had no legal problems until Unisys decided 
to enforce their LZW patent. 

If we want to avoid this kind of problems ogg  is IMHO a safer choice - as far 
as I know they even spend quite some money to look for possible patent 
infringements.

best regards,
  Marco


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Marco Krohn
Theoretical Physics 
University of Hannover