[gst-devel] Can a MPEG-1 with Audio Layers 1&2 plugin be in plugins-good (patentwise)?

Olivier Crête olivier.crete at collabora.co.uk
Tue Aug 26 04:52:22 CEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 19:36 -0700, jjcogliati-gstreamer at yahoo.com wrote:
> Okay, here is a recap of the patent status as I understand it:
> MPEG-1 Video.  No unexpired patents known to this list, but might be patent encumbered.

The mpeg-1 standard dates from 1990, so the patents are expired in most
jurisdictions (well all jurisdictions that I know of..)

-- 
Olivier Crête
olivier.crete at collabora.co.uk
Collabora Ltd
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