At least for licensing for use of FFmpeg, all you need is LGPL 2.1

See also:
   http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=13147
   http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html

On Jun 2, 8:23 am, King InuYasha <[email protected]> wrote:
> I recently switched from the Beta channel to the Dev channel, and I
> noticed that the video tag is working. However, I also noticed that
> ffmpeg is being used to power the Dev builds.
>
> AFAIK, don't you need a lot of patent licenses to use ffmpeg in any
> distributed build? Why didn't you just build in the Ogg Vorbis/Theora
> thusnelda branch like Firefox 3.5 will?
>
> Chromium/Chrome is all about the Open Web, so shouldn't it support the
> Open Video thing that Wikimedia, Mozilla, and Opera have going on?
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