[MEncoder-users] Patent free codec

Phil Ehrens phil at slug.org
Mon Aug 22 17:41:00 CEST 2005


Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> My claim is that everything is patent-free from a moral and legal
> standpoint, because the patents are invalid. However that won't help
> you when you get sued... :(

Better to let lawyers worry about this. Coders don't understand
the law, and lawyers don't understand code... let's try and keep
it this way, we don't want lawyers in here, do we? Like Richard
says, being right doesn't stop you from getting sued, being
quiet does.

;^)




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