El mié, 09-02-2005 a las 22:29 +0100, Stefan Bruens escribió: > Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 22:08 schrieb Damien Sandras: > > > (When will Gnomemeeting support H264 or some other codec with higher > > > compression rate? Will it?) > > > > All those codecs are patented. The best we can hope is that the software > > patents are rejected in Europe. If not, the only hope is with paying > > proprietary codecs pluggable into gnomemeeting. > > H.264 should be possible. From the MPEG LA Licensing Terms: > "Royalties to be paid by end product manufacturers for an encoder, a decoder > or both (“unit”) begin at US $0.20 per unit after the first 100,000 units > each year. There are no royalties on the first 100,000 units each year. > Above 5 million units per year, the royalty is US $0.10 per unit." > > If we go beyond the 100.000 unit limit, I think we have different things to > worry about :-) And how do you count how many sources are redistributed from other places different than gnomemeeting itself? Of course, that piece or plugin should be a closed source plugin, or something sold under a non-redistributable license... which means that plugin layer should be licensed as LGPL. Cheers, -- Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo jsogo debian org
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