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Re: [rtcweb] x264 vs OpenH264 (Was: On the topic of MTI video codecs)

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 01 November 2013 17:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] x264 vs OpenH264 (Was: On the topic of MTI video codecs)
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On 1 November 2013 10:18, Emil Ivov <emcho@jitsi.org> wrote:
>
> There are already a number of Firefox plugins out there that are
> distributed under GPL. Surely you are not saying that FF could somehow
> get in trouble for being able to run those?

I think that the only rational response is this:

IANAL

More to the point: IANAJ.

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