[rtcweb] H.264's freeness for Internet apps

Emil Ivov <emcho@jitsi.org> Mon, 20 August 2012 22:12 UTC

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From: Emil Ivov <emcho@jitsi.org>
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Subject: [rtcweb] H.264's freeness for Internet apps
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On February 2, 2010 MPEG-LA made an announcemnt that sounded like it
would not charge royalties for Internet video:

http://www.mpegla.com/main/Pages/Media.aspx

Does anyone have an idea as to how the exact licensing text would
apply to RTC[web] applications?

Emil