RESEND(Wrong Thread): IMAGE/MP3 licensing issue.
Wolfgang Spraul
wolfgang at openmoko.com
Wed Nov 12 15:36:16 CET 2008
Tom,
> Erk... are you able to give any more details about the exact reasons?
The short story is that we are in a protracted battle with some patent
trolls. Google for Sisvel.
In order to get ourselves in a stronger position, we want to make sure
no copies/instances/whatever of patent-infested technologies like MP2
and MP3 exist on our servers.
Our phones never shipped with end-user MP3 playback features, but we
want to use this opportunity to make sure it's not even in some remote
place somewhere.
For us the important thing is to defend the freedom of our users
rather than cripple our phones so that certain things become
'impossible'.
So please bear with us, while we go through this house cleaning effort.
Best Regards,
Wolfgang
On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:23 PM, Thomas White wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:15:44 +0800
> Ray Chao <ray_chao at openmoko.com> wrote:
>
>> We are sorry that currently we have to remove all the images on the
>> download server of Openmoko. http://downloads.openmoko.org/release/
>
> Erk... are you able to give any more details about the exact reasons?
>
> Tom
>
> --
>
> Thomas White
> Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
> Electron Microscopy Group (PhD Student)
> University of Cambridge / Downing College
>
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