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Sigma Designs/XVid Update
Reagen Ward and many other people have written in with updates to the Sigma Designs/XVid situation, reported a few days ago. Sigma has replied in email and a press release that they intend to make the source code available, however, they seem to be paying lip service at best to the terms of the GNU Public License. Grant Gross from Newsforge has been pursuing the story and in a story yesterday and another today lays out the current situation.
Frist logged in first post!
While it's reprehensible that a programmer there (at SD) apparently copy/pasted some GPL code in, Sigma made the codec a free product, and of course the existence of the Sigma codec in no way diminishes the availability or quality of the xvid codec (which, I admit, is the same redundant argument used to shoot down the bizarre logic of GPL crusaders when they admonish the BSD license). I just don't get how they're the evil villains in this case: All they're trying to do is proliferate the MPEG-4 standard.
On a sidenote: Anyone have any experience with the XCard? I'm thinking of building my own media convergence device, and this will be central for DVD playback. Any opinions?
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uuh..this isnt a rogue employee. its management which ordered the code to be included cos our internal development effort to write our own codec would take too long/too costly. we got away with it for a while until the whistle blowing asshole informed xvid. fuck you man, you know who you are.
-anon sig dev.
|=======D - This is my penis, what do you wan't to do with it, just moderate it accordingly
Stick up your ass, Troll
Stick it in your mouth, offtopic
Stick it in your cat, flamebait
Stick it in your ear, Funny
Stick it in your cars exuast pipe, Insightful
Stick it in your belly button, overated
Stick it in a bottle, underated
Chop it off, Infomative
Bite it off, Intresting.
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|=======D - This is my penis, what do you wan't to do with it, just moderate it accordingly
Stick up your ass, Troll
Stick it in your mouth, offtopic
Stick it in your cat, flamebait
Stick it in your ear, Funny
Stick it in your cars exuast pipe, Insightful
Stick it in your belly button, overated
Stick it in a bottle, underated
Chop it off, Infomative
Bite it off, Intresting.
If you have mod points, do what you want with it.
Its been 14 seconds since you hit reply
Rather than the pretend to be free but really isn't GPL license, we should encourage companies to free source under the BSD license.
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DID is PAST TENSE!
Get it?
Good.