On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:22:35 +0100 Diego Biurrun wrote: [...] > Who told you that Theora was not patent-encumbered? Have you ever seen > anything to substantiate that claim? Because I haven't ...
Well, Xiph claims it is unencumbered by patents, in the sense that there are no patent-royalties that must be paid in order to use/sell/implement the compression format. Quoting from http://www.theora.org/benefits/ : | Theora comes without licensing fees. Neither commercial nor private use | will make you owe money to us. The Theora specification is in the | public domain, its reference implementation is open source and subject | to a license which permits inclusion in proprietary commercial | products. On2, which owns patents that apply to the technical | foundations of Theora, granted an unrevocable free license regarding | those patents. I thought this was true. Do you have any reason to believe that Xiph is lying? -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html New! Version 0.6 available! What? See for yourself! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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