On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf(a)free.fr> wrote:
Le 31/10/13 10:10, Magnus Manske a écrit :
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. But there's no redistribution allowed, and
of course you have to use some binary library, so presumably Firefox
would ask to download the H.264 codec much like it does if you're
missing the Flash plugin and go to a page that uses Flash.
All in all, ugh.
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation