[xine-devel] software patent net strike

[Diego B. <di...@bi...>]

Hi!

If you'll take a look at

http://ffmpeg.org
http://mplayerhq.hu

You'll notice two very similar entry pages.  I've put them up to

- inform people of the software patent damocles sword hanging over the
  European union and
- motivate them to take action NOW.

I would like to ask the xine project to join us in protesting against
software patents by putting up a similar entry page on xinehq.de.

Maybe it would even be a good idea to share the same page between
projects.  It's still a bit in a state of flux and feedback is welcome.
At the very least I will add that the patent scare has already begun and
give the example of VideoLAN and libdts^wlibdca:

http://videolan.org/libdca.html

I'm going to ask VideoLAN, avifile, TCVP and maybe some other free
software multimedia projects next.

Diego