If Red5 will not encode/decode H.264 itself (but will just retransmit H.264 streams from providers to consumers) - will it violate something?
Victor Cedric Muller wrote: > H.264 Licensing has nothing to do with Adobe ? > > MPEG-LA, LLC seems to hold the rights > > and then, there is this: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264 > "Conversely, shipping a product in the U.S. which includes an LGPL H. > 264 decoder/encoder would be in violation of the software license of > the codec implementation. In simple terms, the LGPL and GPL licenses > require that any rights held in conjunction with distributing and > using the code also apply to anyone receiving the code, and no > further restrictions are put on distribution or use. If there is a > requirement for a patent license to be sought, this is a clear > violation of both the GPL and LGPL terms. Thus, the right to > distribute patent-encumbered code under those licenses as part of the > product is revoked per the terms of the GPL and LGPL." > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
