[haiku-development] Re: ffmpeg licensing
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:15:31 +0200
On 31/08/2012 19:53, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> I am a US citizen and am therefore at most risk for these "patent
> issues", but frankly I'm absolutely sick of all these discussions and
> worries over bullshit patents. Screw these software patents, the
> companies who wrongfully got them, and the horrible patent office and
> government who granted them!
+1
Some people to check on this issue:
https://twitter.com/glynmoody http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.fr/
https://twitter.com/mgeist http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
> Because the reality is as much as we may hate it, this corrupt system
> won't be changing overnight. We should just be glad that (so far) the
> EU and most other countries haven't followed suit.
Actually, while software patents are illegal in the EU, the EPO grants a
lot of those regardless...
And a new directive proposal is attempting to include software in the
patent corpus again:
http://unitary-patent.eu/
The vote has been postponed IIRC, I encourage every EU citizen to get
involved, a new campaign to call the MEPs should be launched soon.
François.
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