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Re: [rtcweb] Cisco to open source its H.264 implementation and absorb MPEG-LA licensing fees

Monty Montgomery <xiphmont@gmail.com> Wed, 30 October 2013 15:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Cisco to open source its H.264 implementation and absorb MPEG-LA licensing fees
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I have been informed by several people that the $13M cap mentioned in
my blog post is wrong.  The licensing math is different from the older
MPEG codecs, and the correct number is $65.M until 2015.  I corrected
my post to reflect this.

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> wrote:
> On 10/30/13 10:20, Matt Fredrickson wrote:
>>
>> Does this mean that system information (for systems that this is installed
>> on) may be tracked and sent back to the Cisco servers for accurate license
>> usage count?  (ethernet MAC address, or some other system specific info) so
>> that redownloads of modules on the same system are not counted towards your
>> license usage accounting?
>
>
> My understanding is that MPEG-LA has a per-organization royalty cap for
> H.264 (13 MUSD, if my memory serves), and that Cisco reaches that cap quite
> easily with their own products.
>
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