[linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Sep 24 15:23:00 UTC 2003


> > 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.

The FM patents expired a while ago... I may be _completely_ wrong but I
seem to remember they did not cover the principle of fm for audio
synthesis but a certain implementation in hardware. 

-- Fernando





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