[x264-devel] Re: Legal Status

[Tom Jacobs]

i believe these people hold the all inclusive license for h.264

http://www.mpegla.com/avc/




Quoting The Video Genie <videogenie at hotmail.com>:

> I am really thankful for the information. I am specially thankful for the
> licensing information. Can you or anybody infrom about licencing issues
> of
> h264?
>
> Kind Regards
> The Video Genie
>
>
> >From: Nabeel Iqbal <nabeeliqbalus at yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: x264-devel at videolan.org
> >To: x264-devel at videolan.org
> >Subject: [x264-devel] Re: Legal Status
> >Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:27:44 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >x264 is distributed under GPL licence and according to this just
> changing
> >the naming convention does't mean the different code. many tools are
> >available to analyse such kind of violations. moreover if any software
> >include the open source module in their software then this whole new
> >software has to be under GPL . companies don't do this kindly of things
> >becuase the legal penalties could lead the liquadation of compnay (very
> >high price for any company)
> >
> >farooq Ahmad <videogenie at hotmail.com> wrote:  What will be the legal
> status
> >of companies that just modify naming
> >conventions for variables as well as functions but keep similar code
> >structure? Will that code be considered their proprietary
> implementation?
> >What are the licensing issues in using x264 current implementation.
> >
> >Regards
> >The Video Genie
> >
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