This is all well and good, and where’s the Traffic Cone!?!
Under Santa’s hat
Asking the real questions here.
The cone is the logo for their most popular project (VLC media player), but this is a message from the organization as a whole, which has the logo you currently see. It is not specifically about that one project.
Wait, I thought all countries followed US laws???
Please be sarcasm… Please be sarcasm… Oh I pray to the dark void of the universe that this is sarcasm.
it absolutely is, take it from an autistic person.
(autstic people often don’t recognize or can’t properly replicate sarcasm, which is why i often use /s)
Yeah, but I’ve also met several (Americans, usually) who had takes like these and… Uh… Unfortunately meant it.
While the mistake is a common one, all countries have actually agreed to jointly follow bird law in these sorts of matters.
AFAIK european laws only allow to patent “inventions”. Software is considered to be a series of “words” in whatever programming language you’re using and, like sentences, it’s not an invention and can’t be patented.
On the other hand, software-assisted inventions can be patented as a whole.
With that said, software can still be considered a “work” protected by copyright laws.
Can someone elaborate?
They don’t recognize or value software patents because they aren’t recognized by the government where the project is run from.
Valid.
French laws don’t recognize software patents so videolan doesn’t either. This is likely a reference to vlc supporting h265 playback without verifying a license. These days most opensource software pretends that the h265 patents and licensing fees don’t exist for convenience. I believe libavcodec is distributed with support enabled by default.
Nearly every device with hardware accelerated h265 support has already had the license paid for, so there’s not much point in enforcing it. Only large companies like Microsoft and Red Hat bother.
They bother because they are US based and can be hounded by the patent
trollsholders
That logo design hurts my heart… https://cdn.cnc-comm.com/theme//assets/images/wslogo.png
