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Posted Feb 1, 2010 1:09 UTC (Mon) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: gstreamer decoders by nix
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

That was never my supposition. Perhaps you are thinking of
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Posted Jan 26, 2010 21:32 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]
I guess they're not important enough to be sued by MPEG-LA.
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All I did was ask for clarification on their FAQ. At worst, I hastened the inevitable by some unknowable quantity. At best, my email has helped show better where the licensing necessities are.


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Posted Feb 1, 2010 1:14 UTC (Mon) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

ugh. my thinking with a screaming baby ain't the clearest. at best would have been a fairytale ending of "GPL implementation is OK with us!" at worst i've improved our (or just my) knowledge of the licensing situation at the cost of *perhaps* hastening the inevitable by some unknowable quantity.

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Posted Feb 4, 2010 0:30 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Screaming baby explains everything, I think. Rationality is not expected
under those circumstances. (Sanity is hard enough to maintain.)

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