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FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties

FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties

Posted Jan 26, 2010 18:44 UTC (Tue) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141)
In reply to: FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties by __alex
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

Mozilla could either ship an FFmpeg version adapted to their fears or none at all, whatever they wish.

Mozilla is not giving you redistribution rights to FFmpeg. They cannot because they are not the authors. The FFmpeg project does it. No contract with the MPEG-LA is required to do this, much less some sort of non-standard one.


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