[vlc-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Matroska-devel] [Fwd: Re: Google Video Viewer released]]

[Steve Lhomme]

FYI

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Matroska-devel] [Fwd: [vlc-devel] Re: Google Video Viewer
released]
Date: 	Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:20:40 +0200
From: 	Stephan Verhoeven <grotesteph at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: 	Discussion about the current and future development of
Matroska <matroska-devel at lists.matroska.org>
To: 	Discussion about the current and future development of Matroska
<matroska-devel at lists.matroska.org>
References: 	<42C0D67C.5060101 at free.fr>



/"What has Google done about the (presumably
numerous) patents covered by the FFMPEG code?  Google's a US company, so
they can't ignore software patents.  Have they bought a license from
MPEG-LA (covering the MPEG-4 video patents implemented by FFMPEG)?  If so,
this is the first time I've heard of GPL MPEG codec software being legally
licensed."/

for MPEG4 ASP here ---> http://www.mpegla.com/m4v/m4v-licensees.cfm
(Google is #76)
for H264 here             --->
http://www.mpegla.com/avc/avc-licensees.cfm (Google is #10)



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