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www/patent-examp patent-examples.texi
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From: |
Pavel Kharitonov |
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Subject: |
www/patent-examp patent-examples.texi |
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Date: |
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 15:36:59 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Pavel Kharitonov <ineiev> 14/02/15 15:36:59
Modified files:
patent-examp : patent-examples.texi
Log message:
Backport fixes from HTML.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/patent-examp/patent-examples.texi?cvsroot=www&r1=1.6&r2=1.7
Patches:
Index: patent-examples.texi
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RCS file: /web/www/www/patent-examp/patent-examples.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -b -r1.6 -r1.7
--- patent-examples.texi 15 Feb 2014 15:14:59 -0000 1.6
+++ patent-examples.texi 15 Feb 2014 15:36:59 -0000 1.7
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
* Ogg Vorbis::
* Virtual Dub::
* Broadcast 2000::
-* xanim::
* MPEGII::
Graphics
@@ -107,7 +106,7 @@
We hope to use this information to argue against the system of
software patents, especially in Europe where the question has become
-a live political issue (see @url{http://www.freepatents.org}).
+a live political issue (on late www.freepatents.org).
If you know of such a case, please write to @email{patent-examples@@gnu.org}
and tell us what happened.
@@ -152,7 +151,6 @@
* Ogg Vorbis::
* Virtual Dub::
* Broadcast 2000::
-* xanim::
* MPEGII::
@end menu
@@ -270,8 +268,9 @@
Erkki Ruohtula @email{eru@@netti.fi}
@quotation
-One free program with patent troubles is the BladeEnc MP3 encoder. See
-its homepage at @url{http://bladeenc.mp3.no} for the story, especially
+One free program with patent troubles is the BladeEnc MP3 encoder.
+(The original website was lost) See
+its homepage at http://bladeenc.mp3.no for the story, especially
the news section. Althought theoretically the author (a Swede) should
be safe, he avoids distributing binaries himself due to complaints from
the Fraunhofer institute and the Thomson company.
@@ -346,8 +345,8 @@
"Terry Dube" @email{tdube@@sympatico.ca}
@quotation
address@hidden://mp3licensing.com/patents.html} bragging about there software
-patents.
address@hidden://mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html} bragging about there
+software patents.
@end quotation
@@ -407,11 +406,12 @@
the format. They do not give any "buyer beware" notices.
Information about the Sharp VN-EZ1:
address@hidden://www.sharp.co.jp/sc/gaiyou/news-e/990317.html}
address@hidden://web.archive.org/web/20020623133118/http://www.sharp.co.jp/sc/gaiyou/news-e/990317.html}
+(archived)
@end quotation
address@hidden Broadcast 2000, xanim, Virtual Dub, Audio/Video
address@hidden Broadcast 2000, MPEGII, Virtual Dub, Audio/Video
@comment node-name, next, previous, up
@section Broadcast 2000
@@ -434,31 +434,14 @@
@email{broadcast@@earthling.net}
@end quotation
address@hidden xanim, MPEGII, Broadcast 2000, Audio/Video
address@hidden node-name, next, previous, up
address@hidden xanim
-
-Mikael Hermansson @email{mikeh@@bahnhof.se}
-
address@hidden
-For example the most popular movie player for *nix is xanim It can't
-support some of the codecs for quicktime(sorensen video codec)/avi(some
-of intels/IBM)/mpeg4 because of those patents.
-
-IMHO! this is bad because in the future people need to go back using
-windows because the users can't look at movies on *nix platforms.
-
-For more info about this look at @url{xanim.va.pubnix.com}
address@hidden quotation
-
address@hidden MPEGII, , xanim, Audio/Video
address@hidden MPEGII, , Broadcast 2000, Audio/Video
@comment node-name, next, previous, up
@section MPEGII
Sengan @email{senganb@@ia.nsc.com}
@quotation
address@hidden://www.mpegla.com/lic_agreement.html}
address@hidden://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/M2/Pages/Agreement.aspx}
"There can't be any Free Software that encodes MPEG II without violating
this patent"
@@ -817,7 +800,7 @@
@quotation
"It also used arithmetic coding as the entropy encoder, but
this had to be changed to Huffman coding in bzip2 for patent reasons, it
-seems." -- @url{http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/packers.php3#bzip2}
+seems." -- http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/packers.php3#bzip2
@end quotation
@node zlib, , bzip, Compression
@@ -970,7 +953,8 @@
Tuomas Lukka @email{lukka@@mit.jyu.fi}
@quotation
address@hidden://www.physics.orst.edu/~bulatov/HyperProf/index.html}
address@hidden://web.archive.org/web/20060712210354/http://www.physics.orst.edu/~bulatov/HyperProf/index.html}
+(archived)
This is home of my hyperbolic browser of Java profile. It allows to
represent results of Java profiling in more readable way, as well as it
@@ -1178,13 +1162,14 @@
@quotation
address@hidden://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/foocat/}
address@hidden://web.archive.org/web/20060615102119/http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/foocat/}
+(archived)
I've recieved two letters from the law firm representing Digital
Convergence. I didn't back down, and they have not (as of yet) done
anything about it. As far as I know, they are licensing NeoMedia's
-patents (search for NeoMedia on @url{delphion.com}). They've written a
-LOT of these letters, and most people folded.
+patents (search for NeoMedia on @url{http://www.delphion.com/}).
+They've written a LOT of these letters, and most people folded.
@end quotation