http://techrights.org/2008/11/13/philips-attacks-openmoko/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://techrights.org/2008/11/13/philips-attacks-openmoko/comment-page-1/#comment-38326 Roy Schestowitz Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:47:17 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/13/philips-attacks-openmoko/#comment-38326 Interesting, thanks for the info. Interesting, thanks for the info.

]]> http://techrights.org/2008/11/13/philips-attacks-openmoko/comment-page-1/#comment-38098 pmiller Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:41:01 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/13/philips-attacks-openmoko/#comment-38098 Could it be that OpenMoko shipped their phones with libmad? See http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/commitlog/2008-August/005774.html (search for "libmad") Libmad is free in the sense of the GPL, but it is patent-encumbered even in Europe: http://www.mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html The problem is that most of the mp3 patents are valid worldwide. See also: http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/05/31/08/09/05 Could it be that OpenMoko shipped their phones with libmad?
See
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/commitlog/2008-August/005774.html
(search for “libmad”)
Libmad is free in the sense of the GPL, but it is patent-encumbered even in Europe:
http://www.mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html
The problem is that most of the mp3 patents are valid worldwide.
See also:
http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/05/31/08/09/05

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