Re: [linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?
From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano (nando_AT_ccrma.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 22:07:16 EEST


> > 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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