Questions about what they would lose by open sourcing it (without any
warranty) remain unanswered.
S.
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At this point we felt it would be more helpful for VP8 proliferation to
concentrate our resources around developing the IP itself.
I personally think that OS hardware has also less benefits than OS software
as few people can access the required development tools and computational
resources so they just don't have the capability of actually verifying the
code they write. This is a big design (~1 M gates encoder and decoder
combined) and it will take a week to run through the test suite with a
single computer. A cluster of workstations and FPGA boards are in practice
pretty much mandatory. If the design was considerably smaller it would
certainly make more sense.
Thanks,
Aki
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Sebastien Bourdeauducq <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I took a look at the Milkymist SoC at your website and it really looks
> > like a great project! However, our WebM RTL is not open source
> > although it is free, so I don't know if there is a way we could make
> > it part of that platform.
>
> Too bad... why make it so? I do not understand your reasons for
> restricting access to the source code, as you offer it free of charge.
> Is this policy going to change in the future? I'd prefer that since we
> would not have to waste time and resources by re-developing an open
> source WebM encoder.
>
> Best regards,
> Sébastien
>
>
>
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Aki Kuusela
Engineering Manager
Hantro Team
Google
Kiviharjunlenkki 1 B
90220 Oulu
Finland
Tel. +358 440 235 143
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Hi, Sebastian. I saw your tweet about the WebM RTL. Can you tell me more
about your project?
I ask b/c the RTL code is not open source and Google licenses it (royalty
free) under a long-form paper license. I'm not sure if this suits your
needs.
Thanks--
JL
--
John Luther
Product Manager, WebM Project
(518) 302-1773
www.webmproject.org
US Eastern time zone
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