Re: [rtcweb] A different perspective on the video codec MTI discussion

Il giorno Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:39:03 +0000
Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan@acmepacket.com> ha scritto:

> 
> On Mar 14, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Basil Mohamed Gohar
> <basilgohar@librevideo.org> wrote:
> 
> > I talked about this with direct answers from the MPEG-LA here:
> > http://www.librevideo.org/blog/2010/06/14/mpeg-la-answers-some-questions-about-avch-264-licensing/
> 
> Interesting - I hadn't realized their license was as viral to
> 'derivative' works as GPLv3.
> 
> So does this mean if a mobile phone vendor had the license for H.264
> in their hardware encoder/decoder, and provided an API to
> applications to use that hardware, that any application using the API
> would also be a new end-product and have to acquire the license as
> well?
> 
> Likewise, if a web-based app framework such as PhoneGap/Titanium/etc.
> acquired a license for H.264 and provided an API for using it to
> their customers'(the app creators) code, that their customers (the
> app creators) would also need to get the license?
> 
> -hadriel
> 

This is indeed an interesting read, thanks Basil for sharing this.

Lorenzo

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