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[rsiddharth]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     rsiddharth <rsd>        17/05/06 01:16:51

Modified files:
        patent-examp   : patent-examples.texi patent-examples.html 

Log message:
        [RT#1211204] Add MP3 patent expiration footnote.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/patent-examp/patent-examples.texi?cvsroot=www&r1=1.7&r2=1.8
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/patent-examp/patent-examples.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.13&r2=1.14

Patches:
Index: patent-examples.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/patent-examp/patent-examples.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -b -r1.7 -r1.8
--- patent-examples.texi        15 Feb 2014 15:36:59 -0000      1.7
+++ patent-examples.texi        6 May 2017 05:16:50 -0000       1.8
@@ -268,12 +268,13 @@
 Erkki Ruohtula @email{eru@@netti.fi}
 
 @quotation
-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.
+One free program with patent troubles is the BladeEnc address@hidden of
+2017 the patents on playing MP3 files have reportedly expired.}
+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.
 @end quotation
 
 

Index: patent-examples.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/patent-examp/patent-examples.html,v
retrieving revision 1.13
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -b -r1.13 -r1.14
--- patent-examples.html        29 Mar 2017 12:57:03 -0000      1.13
+++ patent-examples.html        6 May 2017 05:16:50 -0000       1.14
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo">
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
 <link href="#Top" rel="start" title="Top">
+<link href="dir.html#Top" rel="up" title="(dir)">
 <style type="text/css">
 <!--
 a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none}
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@
 <a name="Top"></a>
 <div class="header">
 <p>
-Next: <a href="#Original-Announcement" accesskey="n" rel="next">Original 
Announcement</a></p>
+Next: <a href="#Original-Announcement" accesskey="n" rel="next">Original 
Announcement</a>, Previous: <a href="dir.html#Top" accesskey="p" 
rel="prev">(dir)</a>, Up: <a href="dir.html#Top" accesskey="u" 
rel="up">(dir)</a> &nbsp; </p>
 </div>
 <a name="Examples-of-Software-Patents-that-hurt-Free-Software"></a>
 <h1 class="top">Examples of Software Patents that hurt Free Software</h1>
@@ -376,12 +377,12 @@
 <p>Erkki Ruohtula <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>
 </p>
 <blockquote>
-<p>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.
+<p>One free program with patent troubles is the BladeEnc MP3<a name="DOCF1" 
href="#FOOT1"><sup>1</sup></a>
+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.
 </p></blockquote>
 
 
@@ -551,8 +552,7 @@
 importance here, such as the MPEG-4 format, and also MP3 audio.  
 </p>
 <p>The web address is:
-<a 
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20001207204200/http://heroine.linuxave.net/bcast2000.html/";>
-http://heroine.linuxave.net/bcast2000.html (archived)</a>
+<a 
href="http://heroine.linuxave.net/bcast2000.html";>http://heroine.linuxave.net/bcast2000.html</a>
 </p>
 <p>and the e-mail is:
 <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>
@@ -1501,6 +1501,14 @@
 </p>
 </blockquote>
 
+<div class="footnote">
+<hr>
+<h4 class="footnotes-heading">Footnotes</h4>
+
+<h3><a name="FOOT1" href="#DOCF1">(1)</a></h3>
+<p>As of
+2017 the patents on playing MP3 files have reportedly expired.</p>
+</div>
 <hr>