[x264-devel] Re: Licensing Question

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Thomas Kuglitsch wrote:

>I am new to H.264 and am trying to compare several video codecs as a part for 
>my master thesis at the University of Klagenfurt.

You might be interested to know about MSU's H.264 codec comparison
(can't find a better working link than
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=89741 at the moment)
the latest comparison should be out in a few weeks (days?)
and include x264.

>Therefore I have a question. Although x264 is published under the GNU General 
>Public License, will there be any restrictions using x264 in the future.

Not any more than now =)

>I'm thinking about patents because of the standarisation through MPEG and ITU. 
>Will the standard H.264 (and in particular your implementation of the 
>standard in x264) stay available for everyone without paying for it?

I'm pretty sure its already quite patent encumbered. However,
patents don't (shouldn't) matter in non-commercial use.

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