<quote name="Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" date="2013-10-31" time="10:04:56 -0400"> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote: > > Le 31/10/13 10:10, Magnus Manske a écrit : > >> http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-makes-eleventh-hour-push-for-webrtcs-future/?t=t > >> > >> So, should we support this format now? (not advocating, just curious) > > > > Can we get a summary? > > Summarizing http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html: It seems that > there's a yearly cap on the licensing fees for H.264. So Cisco is > paying the cap, and then anyone can download binaries implementing the > codec from them for free.
Also good reading on the topic, from one of the main authors of Opus (the best audio codec available, and it happens to be big F Free) and long time Wikipedian Greg Maxwell: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/571978/3226db9ce394bf07/ (LWN Subscriber link, join if you like good reporting in this area) "Codec licensing amounts to a billion-dollar tax on communication software. In addition, it is used as a weapon between battling competitors, so it even affects people in countries without software patents." quoth Greg. Other Greg. -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
