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FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties

FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties

Posted Jan 26, 2010 21:24 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

> My apologies you are right. Debian merely disables the H.264
> encoder not the decoder.

BTW, this is completely irrational. The MPEG-LA charges the same amount for encoders as it does for decoders.


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FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties

Posted Jan 27, 2010 0:54 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Debian's policy is to ignore patents until there is evidence that patent holders are forcing people to pay up.

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