Bug 70982 - Xine plugins and patents on DivX
Summary: Xine plugins and patents on DivX
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: xine
Version: limbo
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: wdovlrrw
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Blocks: 67217
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-07 16:07 UTC by Mukund Sivaraman
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-08-16 14:25:44 UTC
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Description Mukund Sivaraman 2002-08-07 16:07:17 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722

Description of problem:
What is the status of patents on the DivX plugin in Xine distributed with Red
Hat? The DivX plugin is built and distributed with Red Hat Public Beta 2 of
Limbo. Has Red Hat done any patent study on it, because it is likely Red Hat may
be held responsible for the software it sells as a commercial product.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ls /usr/lib/xine/plugins/*divx*



Additional info:

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2002-08-14 02:12:16 UTC
The divx plug-ins have been removed, pending their questionable legal status.

Comment 2 Mukund Sivaraman 2002-08-14 10:21:56 UTC
Red Hat might want to undertake a patent study over various multimedia codecs
included with Red Hat Linux. While I have submitted a report for one other
package (XMMS and MPEG-1 Layer 3 audio), there are many other packages such as
mpg321 and MPEG2 video in Xine, which need to be studied.

Comment 3 Jay Turner 2002-08-16 14:25:40 UTC
Leaving this open, as we are currently researching a number of packages which
relate to this directly.

Comment 4 Jay Turner 2002-09-03 19:07:30 UTC
xine has been removed from the release entirely.


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