- From: Nathan Sharfi <comatoast@motherfish-II.xiph.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:39:24 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Ogg Vorbis (nowhere do we refer to Vorbis-compressed audio in an Ogg container as "Ogg/Vorbis) files have the mimetype application/ogg, not audio/vorbis. If the file is known to have only Vorbis data in it, then the file can be served up with audio/x-vorbis. As for patent encumbrance, Ogg Vorbis has gone through two patent searches--one in 2000 for CMGI (now dead or almost-dead dot-com), and another one by AOL to see if it was "safe" to include with Winamp. It is. Speex (http://www.speex.org/) and FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) are both believed to be patent-free, but they haven't had the patent-search verification that Vorbis has had. If the W3C or any of its member companies want to put up the money to hire counsel versed in these matters, feel free to contact us. Nathan Sharfi Webmaster, Xiph.Org P.S. I know that http://www.xiph.org/ looks like a pile of prestandard tag soup; we're trying to figure out if and how Zope could help in a redesign/rearchitecture binge.
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