[linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:36:59PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 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.

Oh that's just absurd. What are they going to do?

Sue John Chowning who claims to have invented FM audio synthesis
way back in the 70s?

Sue MIT, who have FM opcodes in csound?

Sue every radio station in the world?

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