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| author | Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-11-12 16:11:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-11-12 16:11:37 +0000 |
| commit | 6356d8c7e8a5b3311140aa8b74af61db9b595ae7 (patch) | |
| tree | 420e2c0e379a8f13b244f846bf38fc73a8391586 /audio/lame/files | |
| parent | 864bc1d6fe7cf37ce67a02454691936452da83ed (diff) | |
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Patents are a complicated topic, and their regulation varies depending on
jurisdiction. Patents are not necessarily related to the license and so
should not be connected to the license framework.
As a project we will officially remove all patent limitations within the
ports tree and leave it to the user or consumer to deal with their local
legislation to determine if they can use the software without legal
restrictions.
Approved by: core
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=554970
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diff --git a/audio/lame/files/lame_patents.txt b/audio/lame/files/lame_patents.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 2d906788c66d..000000000000 --- a/audio/lame/files/lame_patents.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -# $FreeBSD$ - -Intellectual Property Precaution - -Verious sources explain that the MP3 patents are expired. Various -linux distributions provide precompiled LAME packages for download -since then. - -Most sources, (e.g. http://www.mp3licensing.com/) only talk about -the FhG and Technicolor patent portfolio, but there are also -portfolios from Sisvel (from Philips) and Nokia (from AT&T -> Lucent --> Alcatel). - -Some "old" patents are now expired, but there are more recent MP3 -patents. Some of the more recent ones are e.g. multi-channel related. -Multi-channel (>2 channels) is not implemented in LAME, but this -doesn't mean that there are other patents which could match what -is implemented in LAME. - -There was no investigation (in the LAME project) about which patent -exists, which one is implemented in LAME, and which one is not (yet) -expired. As such it is not known if LAME could now be distributed -as a binary package or not. - -Linux distributions seem to go the "let's see if get sued" way, -FreeBSD does not follow this. - |