[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Ogg legal issues?

[From: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

Hi,
Thomson/Frauenhoffer made such a statement offhand quite some years ago
and when Xiph.org asked which patents they though Ogg infringed they had
no reply. And they have afaik never repeated such a claim again.
Xiph.org also have had a formal patent search done where nothing turned
up.

Christian


On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 15:34 +0300, Salonen Kuisma wrote:
> >>Salonen Kuisma wrote:
> >>
> >>>There is some legal issues with the ogg format, so therefore it might 
> >>>not be in official release. Anyway, I think it's just matter of time 
> >>>when somebody makes actual ogg support for the audioplayer.
> >>
> >>what legal issue ??
> > 
> 
> Ok this statement was not fully considered. I am not aware of ongoing 
> legal activities inside Nokia and the legal issue assumption was about 
> Thomson / Fraunhofer statements about ogg violating their patents. But 
> again, that was just my personal assumption and I am not lawyer, neither 
> I know about ongoing legal activities.
> 
> So, don't assume anything, there is no decisions made about anything. I 
> agree that ogg should be supported but again, that's just my personal 
> opinion.
> 
> -Kuisma
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