Re: [rtcweb] H.261

Lorenzo Miniero <lorenzo@meetecho.com> Sat, 23 November 2013 00:39 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Miniero <lorenzo@meetecho.com>
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:01:13 -0600
Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> wrote:

> On 11/22/13 14:22, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> > They plan to release the sources under BSD, but who wants to use them 
> > directly, they have to deal with mpeg-la. 
> 
> 
> Every time this kind of statement is made without also including "if 
> they distribute more than 100,000 copies a year", it's a bald 
> misrepresentation of the situation.
> 
> I'm not saying the 100,000-copy exemption is a silver bullet. But it 
> sure does cut down the number of people who have to deal with MPEG-LA, 
> and completely addresses the "what if I want to have a enterprise disk 
> image?" question. And ignoring it to exaggerate your case doesn't do 
> anyone any favors.
> 


This 100k again... Apart from the fact that, even for the free 100k units, you still have to track them, which apparently is an all but simple task: as I asked repeatedly on the list (without ever getting an answer), what makes a unit? what counts in the famous 100k list? if I install a transcoding mixer application on a server, does that count as 1 unit? or do I have to count a unit each time I attach a user to the mixer, i.e., whenever I allocate an encoder/decoder? or anything else? any answer, which I still haven't received, would put that 100k in a different perspective. The only info I could find around was related to an even more obscure subscription vs. title-by-title distinction that confused me even more.

Lorenzo


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