Re: [rtcweb] cisco binary on ec2

[Lorenzo Miniero <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:33:15 -0800
Cullen Jennings <[e-mail]> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 21, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Matt Fredrickson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> >  I cannot use that on my dynamically
> > deployed EC2 instances due to licensing restrictions. :-)
> 
> 
> My understanding of the legal situation is that you can use the cisco binary on your EC2 instance and have Cisco pay the MPEG-LA fees. 


The issue that was mentioned was cloned/frozen VM images that you could spawn to increase scalability. In that case, you would prepare/install an image just once, freeze it, and then launch a new one whenever you need it. Ideally you'd have the plugin installed that first time only, but then all cloned instances would fall out of the license agreement, as they'd actually be different machines with the plugin reinstalled rather than downloaded on the fly. Downloading the plugin for each new image that is spawned as it unfreezes would be a problem, as 1) the image wouldn't be ready right away, and 2) any problem in the download process would make the machine useless with respect to H.264.

Lorenzo


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