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Re: [codec] Skype IPR disclosure

"Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@digium.com> Tue, 23 March 2010 21:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [codec] Skype IPR disclosure
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Stephan Wenger wrote:
> Folks,
> The secretariat has just posted Skype’s expected IPR disclosure related
> to the SILK codec draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1297/.
>  Relative to their previous statement (
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1164/), the commercial terms have
> changed, and the new disclosure lists a number of additional patent
> applications.  (The exercise of determining whether the patent
> applications belong to the same patent family is left to the esteemed
> reader.  Same goes for the interpretation of the commercial terms :-)

Well, the previous disclosure didn't actually include any commercial
licensing terms, so I'm not sure the term 'changed' is warranted :-) I
am glad to see that they've chosen the expected royalty-free
patent-non-assert licensing path.

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