Hi,

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Sebastien Bourdeauducq
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Questions about what they would lose by open sourcing it (without any
> warranty) remain unanswered.
> S.

Thanks for sharing this as a lot of things around the WebM RTL are
unclear. Not only for OS(/copyleft) Hardware, but in general it is bad
practice to restrict access to this RTL. Especially if WebM is
supposed to be royalty-free and available to all (as a software
implementation). The resource size does not make it less likely people
will use it... see what happened to the OpenSPARC cpu design... single
core versions were created. I believe besides Milkymist also projects
as Vue and Elphel can benefit from easy access. I do hope they will
reconsider...

regards,


Gerard

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