http://www.xvid.orgXVID development has been stopped
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2002/08/22 - The XVID development team has made a unanimous decision to cease project development. We will return when Sigma Designs' stops infringing the copyrights of XVID authors. As some of you had already assumed, Sigma Designs' REALmagic MPEG-4 Video Codec software includes large amounts of XVID project code. Since Sigma Designs' refuses to comply with the terms of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) and moreover claims sole ownership of the REALmagic MPEG-4 Video Codec software, Sigma Designs' is violating the GNU General Public License and copyright law.
We have been in contact with Sigma Designs' since July and were hopeful that this matter would be settled quietly. Their refusal to cooperate has forced us to publicly request Sigma Designs' to comply with the terms of the GNU GPL, or immediately cease REALmagic MPEG-4 Video Codec distribution. Feel free to ask Sigma Designs' for the REALmagic MPEG-4 Video Codec source code, they are obliged to provide you a copy. The official press release and a line-by-line code comparison of the REALmagic and XVID binaries are available for download below.
Our decision to publicly accuse Sigma Designs' and halt XVID development was difficult to make, please respect it. We simply do not believe XVID development should continue under the current circumstances. The XVID development team would like to thank all of our visitors and supporters for all your help and encouraging comments in the past. You really made XVID development a lot of fun!
Best wishes to you all!
The XVID team
files
press-20020822-en.pdf - XVID team requests Sigma Designs' to halt copyright infringement (german) (french)
press-20020822-en.html - XVID team requests Sigma Designs' to halt copyright infringement (german) (french)
press-20020822-en.txt - XVID team requests Sigma Designs' to halt copyright infringement (german) (french)
v1.0_comparison.pdf - REALmagic v1.0 vs. XVID-01-MAY-2002 comparison
v1.1_comparison.pdf - REALmagic v1.1 vs. XVID-01-MAY-2002 comparison
xvid_snapshot_20020501.tar.gz - XVID source code snapshot from 1st of May, 2002
xvid_snapshot_20020412.tar.gz - "stable" XVID source code snapshot from 12th of April, 2002
xvid_snapshot_20020728.tar.gz - "trusted" XVID source code snapshot from 28th of July, 2002
xvid_snapshot_20020822.tar.gz - "final" XVID source code snapshot from 22nd of August, 2002
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