Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (349 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 03 November 2007 10:33:10 wrote Benji Weber:
> On 03/11/2007, Aniruddha <mailing_list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I know the link. Apparently according to this article it's not an legal
> > but an ethical issue.
>
> No, it's a legal issue as well. Using patent & copyright infringing
> things is never really an issue. Distribution of infringing software
> most certainly is an issue.
>
> Knowing distribution of something like xine mp3 support by an american
> company would be in violation of the mp3 patent, would make them
> liable. Furthermore the GPL does not grant permission to distribute

Just for correctness, mp3 patents are also valid in europe (it is not a 
software patent, the algorithm is patented, what works here as well).

bye
adrian

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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