wouldn't this issue be solved by the previous conversation abuot converting x264 to LGPL?<br>Then your custom patented code can stay close source, while you link to the open source 264 library...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 2/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller</b> <<a href="mailto:christian@fluendo.com">christian@fluendo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi x264 developers,<br>I don't know if any of you know Fluendo, but we are a company doing<br>multimedia solutions for Linux, mostly using the GStreamer framework.<br><br>We are currently looking into h264 encoding and we have a couple of
<br>possibilities available, like write our own encoder, license it from<br>another company or try to use an open source project like x264.<br><br>We have no issue with contributing back and fixes and changes we do, but<br>
since we would need to take out patent licenses in order to be able to<br>sell our services a lot of places we can't use x264 under the GPL.<br><br>So I am writing this mail to see if there is a possibility to be allowed<br>
to take a snapshot copy of x264 and resell that under a proprietary<br>license. This doesn't necessary need to be the most recent copy,<br>depending on developer willingness.<br><br>We are prepared to pay money for this right or sign a contract stating
<br>that any changes we do will be contributed back or a combination of<br>these or other agreed upon terms.<br><br>Anyway, let me know if this is a possibility you are interested in<br>discussing. I tried sending a mail about this a little over a week ago
<br>to Laurent, since his mail address was the first on the page, but I<br>didn't get a reply.<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Christian Schaller<br><br><br>--<br>Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller<br>Business Development Manager<br>
Fluendo S.L.<br>Mobile Phone: +34 678093464<br>Office Phone: +34 933175153<br>Fax : +34 934127034<br><br><br>--<br>This is the x264-devel mailing-list<br>To unsubscribe, go to: <a href="http://developers.videolan.org/lists.html">
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