<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+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.
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.
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