Well, even FFmpeg project acknowledges there might be patent issues with software written by a company to be used in commercial software. Technically, Google Chrome is commercial software, even if Chromium is not.
This is why Moonlight's use of ffmpeg is disabled in official builds from Mono. Even if it is an open source project, Novell is the primary developer so it could be in a lot of trouble. Google may have to do the same thing with Chromium/Chrome. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg#Legal_status On Jun 2, 10:57 am, dhhwai <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
