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 &lt;ProRes(a)apple.com&gt; Date: 2014-12-03 22:26 GMT+01:00 Subject: Re: license needed for hosting ProRes files? To: Sebastiaan ter Burg &lt;terburg(a)wikimedia.nl&gt; 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. === On Aug 21, 2014, at 7:07 AM, Sebastiaan ter Burg &lt;terburg(a)wikimedia.nl&gt; 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 -- Sebastiaan ter Burg *Projectleader Cultural Cooperation* *Wikimedia Nederland* ________________________________ tel.: +31 30 32 00 238 gsm: +31 6 480 88 615 e-mail: terburg(a)wikimedia.nl wiki: Ter-burg <https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Ter-burg> ________________________________ www: www.wikimedia.nl wiki: nl.wikimedia.org ________________________________ *Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:* Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3 3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht ________________________________ -- Sebastiaan ter Burg *Projectleider Culturele Samenwerking* *Wikimedia Nederland* ________________________________ tel.: +31 30 32 00 238 gsm: +31 6 480 88 615 e-mail: terburg(a)wikimedia.nl wiki: Ter-burg <https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Ter-burg> ________________________________ www: www.wikimedia.nl wiki: nl.wikimedia.org ________________________________ *Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:* Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3 3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht ________________________________