Query regarding legal issues [Archive]

bharadwaj

March 29th, 2008, 02:57 PM

Basically MP3 has been licensed by only few companies after paying the royality fee.
more information can be found here. http://mp3licensing.com/
Yet few attpemts have been made to legalize MP3 in many countries by gstreamer through BSD licensing
More info can be found here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/165985/

slink3r

May 1st, 2008, 04:36 PM

I was working on wine API when I ran unto a legal question as such.

guest@slinker-desktop:~/Desktop$ dpkg -force DEST=~/.wine -SNOOP --force-architecture -i wine_0.9.59~winehq0~ubuntu~7.10-1_i386.deb
dpkg: unknown option -o

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages ;
Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --license for copyright license and lack of warranty (GNU GPL) .

Options marked produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' !

Being the other problem. Mind you I don't mean to hijack your post, but I'm trying to contribute more patches to the Wine depository, and just today I got one bounced because of a certain issue in it, and if I could solve this particular problem I might be able to help the wine project out with a certain application spectrum wherein your legal question is solved in a sense.

It's hard to really explain.

But, if you're willing to take the time to read my words and get this far perhaps you can suggest an application greasing threads to enable thread priority optimization?

-Hate to post this over your question, but once again legalities are very tricky in this day and age with the Pakistan situation.