FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties
FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties
Posted Jan 28, 2010 10:52 UTC (Thu) by DonDiego (guest, #24141)In reply to: FFmpeg vs. MPEG-LA royalties by cmccabe
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web
> I can imagine hilarious scenarios of course: airport controls for software
> patent contraband :-)
> patent contraband :-)
> I can imagine some kind of futuristic tablet computing device where
> installing unauthorized software was impossible. All software would have
> to be approved by some centralized authority, who would be an easy target
> for patent litigation. In that case, distributing free software that used
> patented codecs could easily become impossible.
Apple ships an H.264 decoder with that device already, patent license and all. So no problem from that side...