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@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@apple.com Date: 2014-12-03 22:26 GMT+01:00 Subject: Re: license needed for hosting ProRes files? To: Sebastiaan ter Burg terburg@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@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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