Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Gnomemeeting's future



El mié, 09-02-2005 a las 22:29 +0100, Stefan Bruens escribió:
> Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 22:08 schrieb Damien Sandras:
> > > (When will Gnomemeeting support H264 or some other codec with higher
> > > compression rate? Will it?)
> >
> > All those codecs are patented. The best we can hope is that the software
> > patents are rejected in Europe. If not, the only hope is with paying
> > proprietary codecs pluggable into gnomemeeting.
> 
> H.264 should be possible. From the MPEG LA Licensing Terms:
> "Royalties to be paid by end product manufacturers for an encoder, a decoder 
> or both (“unit”) begin at US $0.20 per unit after the first 100,000 units 
> each year.  There are no royalties on the first 100,000 units each year.  
> Above 5 million units per year, the royalty is US $0.10 per unit."
> 
> If we go beyond the 100.000 unit limit, I think we have different things to 
> worry about :-)

 And how do you count how many sources are redistributed from other
places different than gnomemeeting itself? 

 Of course, that piece or plugin should be a closed source plugin, or
something sold under a non-redistributable license... which means that
plugin layer should be licensed as LGPL.

 Cheers,

-- 
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
   jsogo debian org

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