Re: ISSUE-24 (ogg-delete): Request to delete "should support Ogg" clause before publishing FPWD [HTML 5 spec]

Olivier GENDRIN wrote:
>>> "User agents should support Ogg Theora video and Ogg Vorbis audio, as
>>> well as the Ogg container format." in 3.14.7.1.
> 
> Couldn't we replace that sentence by a more general one, speaking
> about 'at least one patent-free format' ?

Other than Ogg Theora and Dirac, which is still under development, there 
are very few, if any, other options.  However, those two aren't 
patent-free either.  Their known patents are royalty-free, but there is 
unfortunately still a risk of submarine patents.

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Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software
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Received on Saturday, 1 December 2007 11:30:43 UTC