Bug#439897: ffmpeg: Patent holders on mpeg2 encoder

[Loïc Minier]

severity 439897 important
stop

        Hi,

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Surprise that the mpeg2 encoder is still in ffmpeg.
[...]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2#Patent_holders

 Virtually any non-trivial program infringes some patents; my
 understanding is that the current policy is to disable functionality
 infringing *actively enforced* patents.

 If you have some information on active enforcement of the MPEG 2
 patents by the patents holders, please send them to this bug report.

   Bye,
-- 
Loïc Minier