[ID3 Dev] patents

[Ben Bennett]

It is better not to know.  Really.

You get nailed for the serious money for wilful infringement.

However, tagging doesn't know (or at least need to know) about any of
the internal details of mp3 tags.  You could theoretically apply ID3v2
tags to a word doc, a jpeg, or whatever you wanted.  Now... the target
app probably couldn't read it with the leading "junk", but that's a
different story.

		 -ben

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 02:25:11PM +0100, Mark Smith wrote:
> Does anyone know, or have a view about, whether the recent courtroom  
> shenanigans regarding mp3 patents have any bearing on the creation  
> and use of ID3 tags? Particularly whether or not we, as developers of  
> tagging software, have anything to be concerned about.
> 
> It seems that maybe doing anything even vaguely connected with mp3  
> could be seen as swimming in shark-infested waters.
> 
> best,
> 
> Mark Smith
> 
> 
> 
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