On Jan 05, 2007, at 3:56 AM, Giovanni wrote:
Licensing for most of the apps you mentioned is a bear.
MP3: Playback licensing is required and costly. $10,000.00 (Unless
the underlying technology is licensed). In Windows, it is cover
under directx for PLAYBACK only. There is no provision for Mac as
far as I know, please tell me if I'm wrong. I would love to know.
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html
If you are using Quicktime as the playback engine this is already
covered by Apple
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/feb/12qt6.html
JPEG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG
As of October 6 </wiki/October_6>, 2006 </wiki/2006>, the U.S.
patent's 20-year term appears to have expired, and in November
2006, Forgent agreed to abandon enforcement of patent claims
against use of the JPEG standard.^[6] <#_note-surrendered>
The JPEG committee has as one of its explicit goals that their
standards (in particular their baseline methods) be implementable
without payment of license fees, and they have secured appropriate
license rights for their upcoming JPEG 2000 </wiki/JPEG_2000>
standard from over 20 large organizations.
Windows Media Technologies: Licensing is free under Windows but not
free on any none-windows platforms including the Mac.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/licensing/
final.aspx#WindowsMediaAudioStandardVersion_Final
Microsoft gives away the Flip4mac add on to Quicktime and there is no
license required unless you are PORTING their codecs which is not
required
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?
pid=windowsmedia
By the way, I would love to know if RS is paying for usage of the
players on their development engine. The thing is that RS is not
the developer of the application, you and I are, so I would love to
know what licensing if any is covered by RS.
Some is covered by Apple, some by MS
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