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Sigma Designs Accused of Copyright Infringement

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the vengeance-is-mine-saith-the-horde dept.

Cygnus v1 writes "The XVID team has ceased development of the XVID video codec for the time being because they say that Sigma Designs' REALmagic MPEG-4 Video Codec software includes their code and has claimed it as Sigma Designs' own work. The current XVID homepage includes some binary-level comparisons." Update: 08/23 03:14 GMT by T : Apparently the folks at Sigma have seen that no good is likely to come from this; an anonymous reader submits a link to this release on Yahoo! which says "complete source code will be available for download starting August 23, free of charge, through Sigma's website."

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  1. Sue the bastards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you don't sue to uphold the GPL, then the GPL loses its force!

    If you quit, then Sigma wins, and every other GPL piece of software loses.

  2. Re:Sue them - I agree, for all copyright violation by Totally_Lost · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Including the copyright violations in the P2P community (which is largely the same as the open source community). It's pretty damn sick to be totally arrogant about other peoples copyright violations of GPL'd works while completely ignoring the IP rights of other copyrighted works.

  3. Re:unanswered question by EdMcMan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So the primary purpose of Xvid developing their software is so that Sigma will GPL their codec? There's a flaw in your analogy.