--- In [email protected], "Heath" <heathpa...@...> wrote: > > I didn't think OSNews story was "hysterical", I thought it brought up some > valid points and after reading the Endgaget article there are still very > valid concerns. > > "To repeat the point: as an end user, you'll never have to think about your > legal liability over H.264, because there's no need for you to be licensed > unless you're distributing commercial content to other end users or building > an H.264 encoder. We'd venture a guess and say you're probably using a > licensed camera and software and uploading to services like YouTube or Vimeo > or Viddler, and that means you're totally in the clear." >
What about the linux/FLOSS communtiy that wont get a license because of the NDA (Non-disclosure agreement)? the end-user pays.... > So what if you self host your videos and have ads on your site, is that > commercial use? What if you create a DVD of your independent movie and use > the codec and then sell the DVD? Have I just distrubuted commercial content? > ( yeah, I know like the article said, get a lawyer) or use bittorrent to distrubuted the video, where dose non-commercial use end and commercial use start?
