I would interpret "developing" as meaning creating a computer program
that can read/write ProRes files, and their response as being you
don't need a license on Mac OS X, as decoder/encoder is already
available on that platform via a library. In other words, nothing to
do with your question ;)
But, I really don't think Apple would have any reasonable grounds to
stop people distributing files in that format even if they wanted to
[IANAL], and even if they did have grounds, it would probably be
politically a very bad move for them to do so.
--bawolff
On 12/3/14, Sebastiaan ter Burg <terburg(a)wikimedia.nl> wrote:
Wow, it took them over 3 months to *not *answer my
question.
But, as I am developing on Mac OS X, it looks like there's nothing holding
us back to host ProRes files.
Now who has a huge server to spare?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Apple ProRes Program Office <ProRes(a)apple.com>
Date: 2014-12-03 22:26 GMT+01:00
Subject: Re: license needed for hosting ProRes files?
To: Sebastiaan ter Burg <terburg(a)wikimedia.nl>
Dear Sebastiaan,
Thank you for your patience. We have been inundated with ProRes requests.
If you are developing on Mac OS X, no ProRes license is needed as it is
available on our platform.
*General Reference Documents*
Authorized Apple ProRes List <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5959>
Apple ProRes White Paper, June 2014
<http://images.apple.com/final-cut-pro/docs/Apple_ProRes_White_Paper.pdf>
Best,
- Apple ProRes Program Office.
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On Aug 21, 2014, at 7:07 AM, Sebastiaan ter Burg <terburg(a)wikimedia.nl>
wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Wikimedia Nederland is researching the options to set up a publicly
available file server for uncompressed video footage. This would be a ftp
server or a similar service.
The uncompressed footage will not be played back by the server. For
playback the files are client-sided - by the uploader - compressed to
smaller and open formats (WebM of OGV) and uploaded separately.
Questions:
1. Under the conditions mentioned above, would it be possible to use
ProRes as a/the codec to share the uncompressed footage?
2. Is a license needed to share ProRes files?
3. If so, are there solution where this be done without a license?
4. Does the hardware and software of the server affect above?
With kind regards,
Sebastiaan ter Burg
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