- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:28:04 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Aaron Franco wrote: > > Due to the proprietary nature of the H.264 codec and the expensive > licensing fees that go along with it, I propose that the MPEGLA and the > Licensors of the codec disclose the patents royalty free if the codec is > included as a part of the HTML5 specification. I am aware that this is > already a requirement of the W3C, but it seems the license has not been > disclosed yet. This mailing list is neither an MPEG-LA mailing list nor a W3C mailing list, so you may not have much success with this topic here. >From the WHATWG's perspective, a royalty-free codec that everyone is willing to implement would be great, but currently we are not aware of any such codec existing. Unless anyone has any concrete new information on the topic, e.g. in the form of browser vendors agreeing to all implement the same codec, there is not much point rehashing the issue. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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