[SLUG] Software patents

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 09:35:10 EDT


>From the sig of an MPlayer developer:

--
level[i]= get_vlc(); i+=get_vlc();                (violates
patent EP0266049)
median(mv[y-1][x], mv[y][x-1],
mv[y+1][x+1]);        (violates patent #5,905,535)
buf[i]= qp - buf[i-1];                                (violates patent #?)
for more examples, see
http://mplayerhq.hu/~michael/patent.html
--

BTW, software patents were (mostly) voted down by the EU Parliament recently, hooray! Too bad they don't have any real governmental power, though.

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