[linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Wed Sep 24 11:53:01 UTC 2003


Hallo,
Juhana Sadeharju hat gesagt: // Juhana Sadeharju wrote:

> Hello. Can anyone report what is going on with the EU software patents?
> How they would affect immediately the audio and graphics development
> we are doing? Xine? Sodipodi? Others?

I suppose you wouldn't be allowed to control one oscillator's
frequency with the output of another oscillator using more than about
10 Hz because that is Frequency Modulation and Yamaha has a patent on
that. But I'm no lawyer.

ciao
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