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Re: [rtcweb] H.264 patent licensing options

Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> Thu, 11 December 2014 18:53 UTC

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From: Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx>
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] H.264 patent licensing options
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Just to clarify: The above messages closing the thread were with my RAI AD
hat on, so as a matter of IETF process.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> wrote:

> Let me re-iterate: This thread is closed.
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:32 PM, John Leslie <john@jlc.net> wrote:
>
>> Roman Shpount <roman@telurix.com> wrote:
>> >...
>> > In case of H.264, as far as our company is concerned, this implies that
>> we
>> > cannot license H.264 IPR. To work around this, we are planning to offer
>> > H.264 in client software on the platforms where H.264 is provided by the
>> > platform itself or via OpenH264. In both cases, we consider H.264
>> licensing
>> > will be something that will occur between the end user and the platform
>> > provider, or, in case of OpenH264, between the end user and Cisco. If
>> end
>> > users decides to ignore the H.264 licensing terms, as they typically do,
>> > this is between the end user and whoever provided them with the H.264
>> > license. We will not license H.264 ourselves or provide any H.264
>> licenses
>> > from us to our customers. In anything that we license directly to our
>> > customers or operate ourselves (which typically means professional
>> > conferencing services), we are planning to support VP8 only and will not
>> > claim WebRTC compliance. End points which implement H.264 only will not
>> be
>> > fully supported by the services we operate and would only be provided
>> with
>> > limited feature set that can be enabled based on peer-to-peer
>> > communications or relay without the need for transcoding or
>> > other H.264 related server functionality. This is why the currently
>> offered
>> > compromise works for us even though H.264 licensing policy is less then
>> > ideal.
>> > _____________
>> > Roman Shpount
>>
>>    This explanation is definitely helpful. Thank you!
>>
>> --
>> John Leslie <john@jlc.net>
>>
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