[oclug] Fwd: [edlug] Rather Depressing

[Greg]

Rod Giffin wrote:
>>http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/
>>
>>"FFmpeg is seriously threatened by software patents due to the numerous
>>patented techniques it implements. Also threatened are the many programs
>>built upon FFmpeg, like the free software multimedia players MPlayer,
>>xine, VLC, avifile, gstreamer"
> 
> 
> It's too bad they don't include any method (or request) for programmers to
> help them work around the patents they're threatened by as well.

That is what a patent forbids.

> Rod.
>