Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 11:42 +0200, Johnny Strom a écrit : > Damien Sandras wrote: > > Le mercredi 07 décembre 2005 à 00:07 +0000, JGJones a écrit : > > > >>Since I use GnomeMeeting primarily for videocalls...it's main weakness > >>as you probably know is the fact that OpenH323 only use the H261 encoder. > >> > >>Obviously it'll be lovely if they had a H264 encoder. Alas, we don't. > >> > >>I was wondernig since I came across the x264 project here - > >>http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html > >> > >>I release that it's still very much in very early days but for future > >>use, should it improve, is there any arguement against using x264? Such > >>as patents? They're reverse-engineering the encoder so that would make > >>it legal doesn't it? > >> > > > > > > Patents are not on the code, they are on the technics, so it is > > certainly not legal, at least in the US. In Europe, it is still a bit > > "vague". > > > > However, there is a licensing problem. x264 is GPL, and OPAL/OPENH323 > > are MPL. GPL and MPL are incompatible. If we make a plugin, then it > > won't solve the problem following Mr Stallman because the program is > > "linked" in memory. > > Btw why is opal/openh32 MPL? > > Seen this: > http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html >
For historical reasons I think. However, the license can not be changed anymore, because it would mean to contact all contributors. -- _ Damien Sandras (o- //\ GnomeMeeting: http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ v_/_ FOSDEM 2006 : http://www.fosdem.org SIP Phone : sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
