>>From: Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
>>
>>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