On 12 Dec 2007, at 17:44, David Gerard wrote:
On 12/12/2007, Geoffrey Sneddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12 Dec 2007, at 14:23, David Gerard wrote:
FWIW, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons only allow unencumbered
formats
on the site. Video MUST be Ogg Theora. Compressed audio better be
Ogg.
Why must video just one of many unencumbered formats?
Er, what are the others?
Technically speaking, Theora is actually unencumbered (it just has a
RF license covering the patents from On2). Dirac is in a similar
situation.
Apart from those two, the others I can think of are those that are in
excess of twenty years old (and therefore their patents have expired),
such as H.260.
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Geoffrey Sneddon
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