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Google and the MPEG Licensing Authority have announced an agreement that will stop MPEG LA from creating a patent pool around the VP8 video codec, the WebM blog reports. VP8 is part of the royalty-free WebM media file format; MPEG LA has been threatening to create a patent pool to change the "royalty-free" part.
" The arrangement with MPEG LA and 11 patent owners grants a license to Google and allows Google to sublicense any techniques that may be essential to VP8 and are owned by the patent owners; we may sublicense those techniques to any VP8 user on a royalty-free basis. The techniques may be used in any VP8 product, whether developed by Google or a third party or based on Google's libvpx implementation or a third-party implementation of the VP8 data format specification. It further provides for sublicensing those VP8 techniques in one successor generation to the VP8 video codec."
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Articles of interest
The H reports
from CeBIT 2013 at length. " Speaking to me following his
presentation, [Klaus] Knopper also mentioned that he was contemplating
creating a mobile version of Knoppix to run on smartphones. The developer
noted that the hardware he would need is already available in many
smartphones: a powerful processor, 1GB or more of RAM, and a large,
high-resolution screen. He showed us his Samsung Galaxy Note II running the
latest version of the CyanogenMod Project's custom Android firmware and
suggested that Knoppix would run very well on the hardware and could be
useful for applications such as GIMP (the Note II includes a
pressure-sensitive stylus and Wacom technologies). Phones like the Note II
could also be docked for use with an external display, keyboard and mouse,
turning them into fully fledged desktop devices."
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Rick Lehrbaum, founder of LinuxDevices, has a new site called
LinuxGizmos. " Like its forerunner, LinuxGizmos is devoted to the use of Linux in embedded and mobile devices and applications. The site’s goal is to provide daily updates of news and information on embedded Linux distributions, application software, development tools, protocols, standards, and hardware of interest to technical, marketing, and management professionals in the embedded and mobile devices markets."
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Upcoming Events
Events: March 14, 2013 to May 13, 2013
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March 13
March 21 |
PyCon 2013 |
Santa Clara, CA, US |
March 15
March 16 |
Open Source Conference |
Szczecin, Poland |
March 15
March 17 |
German Perl Workshop |
Berlin, Germany |
March 16
March 17 |
Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2013 |
Chemnitz, Germany |
March 19
March 21 |
FLOSS UK Large Installation Systems Administration |
Newcastle-upon-Tyne , UK |
March 20
March 22 |
Open Source Think Tank |
Calistoga, CA, USA |
| March 23 |
Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2013 |
Augsburg, Germany |
March 23
March 24 |
LibrePlanet 2013: Commit Change |
Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 25 |
Ignite LocationTech Boston |
Boston, MA, USA |
| March 30 |
Emacsconf |
London, UK |
| March 30 |
NYC Open Tech Conference |
Queens, NY, USA |
April 1
April 5 |
Scientific Software Engineering Conference |
Boulder, CO, USA |
April 4
April 5 |
Distro Recipes |
Paris, France |
April 4
April 7 |
OsmoDevCon 2013 |
Berlin, Germany |
April 6
April 7 |
international Openmobility conference 2013 |
Bratislava, Slovakia |
| April 8 |
The CentOS Dojo 2013 |
Antwerp, Belgium |
April 8
April 9 |
Write The Docs |
Portland, OR, USA |
April 10
April 13 |
Libre Graphics Meeting |
Madrid, Spain |
April 10
April 13 |
Evergreen ILS 2013 |
Vancouver, Canada |
| April 14 |
OpenShift Origin Community Day |
Portland, OR, USA |
April 15
April 17 |
Open Networking Summit |
Santa Clara, CA, USA |
April 15
April 17 |
LF Collaboration Summit |
San Francisco, CA, USA |
April 15
April 18 |
OpenStack Summit |
Portland, OR, USA |
April 17
April 18 |
Open Source Data Center Conference |
Nuremberg, Germany |
April 17
April 19 |
IPv6 Summit |
Denver, CO, USA |
April 18
April 19 |
Linux Storage, Filesystem and MM Summit |
San Francisco, CA, USA |
| April 19 |
Puppet Camp |
Nürnberg, Germany |
April 22
April 25 |
Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo |
Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| April 26 |
MySQL® & Cloud Database Solutions Day |
Santa Clara, CA, USA |
April 27
April 28 |
LinuxFest Northwest |
Bellingham, WA, USA |
April 27
April 28 |
WordCamp Melbourne 2013 |
Melbourne, Australia |
April 29
April 30 |
Open Source Business Conference |
San Francisco, CA, USA |
April 29
April 30 |
2013 European LLVM Conference |
Paris, France |
May 1
May 3 |
DConf 2013 |
Menlo Park, CA, USA |
May 9
May 12 |
Linux Audio Conference 2013 |
Graz, Austria |
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