On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 01:05, Tim Dobson <[email protected]> wrote: > Read what it said again: > ------------------ > MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will > continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is **free to > end users** (known as Internet Broadcast AVC Video) during the next > License term from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2015. > ------------------ > (emphasis is my own) > > I'm fairly uncomfortable about this because it's quite unclear what the > situation is with regards to other uses of the codec. > > I'd prefer to feel safer & use theora but :-/
And again, nothing changes: these were the terms under which H.264 was freely usable from the start; the whole point of this announcement was that there *hasn't* been a change in what is/isn't allowed in terms of royalty-free use, when everybody was geared up for the latter to be diminished to just about zero. M. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
