On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 05:43 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > What is unlawful about VLC? If your expressing the Microsoft > position I don't think it would stand up in court. If you live in the US, you live under US patent law. The algorithms used to decode MPEG2 videos (which is what DVD's are) are patented in the US (even though you can't patent algorithms, gotta love US patent law). VLC doesn't have a license from whatever body licenses the MPEG2 standard, therefore, even though they wrote the code themselves, the code is in violation of US patent law (though not US copyright law). If you think this is ridiculous, you are right, but it doesn't change the fact that it's the current state of the law. > I do not know what FOSS is. Sorry. Free/Open Source Software Jonathan
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