utgg wrote: > From Wikipedia: "According to the MPEG-2 licensing agreement *any use of > MPEG-2 technology is subject to royalties*. MPEG-2 encoders are subject > to a royalty of $2.00 per unit, decoders are subject to a royalty of > $2.00 per unit, and royalty-based sales of encoders and decoders are > subject to different rules and $2.50 per unit.". > > I don't really know if that is really the case, and I agree that it > would be outrageous. But if it is the case, does it cause issues for > anyone providing a plugin?
How would "per unit" apply to software? Especially software that is free? This seems like a hardware sales licence to me. Apparently ffmpeg negotiated a licence for AAC patents based on an amount per sale, which works great for ffmpeg given there aren't any sales. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Owen Smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42371 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
