Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Buffering idea
From: nick.copeland_AT_ntlworld.com
Date: Wed Jun 19 2002 - 12:46:33 EEST
If the patent was only submitted in '97 you this is no problem. SLab can
prove a prior implementation or audio caching, the software is in the
public domain. All you need to do is take a few lines out of the SLab
disk IO daemon, include it with comments to the effect of where it came,
and use it without recourse. You only need to use the most basic
elements
of the code, or indicate you are using the same generic algorithm.
I do not even see the need to finances for eventual litigation. This is
a pretty strong defense, and to litigate against one or more private
individuals supplying GPL software is a no-win situation.
Put it this way, SLab has cached megabytes of audio data since way
before this patent was submitted. It has prior implementation.
nick.
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