[MPlayer-cygwin] What to do about patents?

[Joseph Miller]

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Can anyone also provide me with which patents this project is in violation of 
and how MPlayer may be brought into compliance?  Either by removing certain 
features, rewriting how certain things are done, or some other method?  Is 
the entire project really lost?

- -Joseph

On Monday 14 March 2005 11:58 am, Joseph Miller wrote:
> What shall we do about patents and mplayer?  I was very distressed about
> the home page of MPlayer when I visited this weekend.  I immediately made
> backup copies of MPlayer so as not to lose such a valuable project.  I am
> in the United States and I regrettably do not know much about the politics
> of Europe.  If someone could give me a quick rundown, and particularly
> mention which countries this affects, whether the patents will be
> international (like, could I still use MPlayer here in the states), etc? 
> And what shall be the plan of action?  Could we move the project to another
> country that does not have software patents?  Is there another place that
> we can go to communicate further, and more privately, about this delicate
> topic?
>
> And where can I go to stay up to date with what's going on over in Europe?
> Open source contributors are not so big over here.  Open source is
> basically only viewed as what can be capitalized on to make money.  It
> appears to me that the contributors in other countries are the ones that
> have built open source to the level that it acheived before Americans
> begain capitalizing on it.  It appears to me that a great number of
> contributors to open source are from Europe and I should like to learn more
> about it.
>
> -Joseph Miller
>
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