[x264-devel] Re: H.264 encoder

[JGJones]

I'm not a dev myself too, so my voice carry nothing too. I remember I 
once asked about licencing because being deaf myself, videophone are of 
huge importance to me.

And I was wondering what the problem was between the licences that 
OpenH323 use (for GnomeMeeting) and x264 so that I could have H264 video 
calls as the current H261 video in use by OpenH323 is of extremely poor 
quality and no good for sign language at all whatsoever.

Does the change to LGPL means OpenH323 could then be able to work with 
it or make use of it?

Many thanks.

JGJones

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Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2/1/06, Panagiotis Issaris <takis.issaris at uhasselt.be> wrote:
>
> [..]
>
>   
>> >From our perspective, well, we just need an LGPL H.264 encoder. So
>> regardless of the outcome, we will have to provide an LGPL licensed
>> encoder. The difference would be, that instead of putting time and
>> effort in reinventing the wheel while writing a new implementation, we
>> could spent that time enhancing the existing codebase.
>>     
>
> First of all, I'm not an x264 dev, so my voice has no weight at all.
> I think it would probably be wise for the company who have some
> interest in using x264 to start contributing patch to clearly show
> that they _can_ contribute to the project instead of asking for a
> licence change and swearing that they'll contribute to the project
> once the licence is changed.
>
> I assume that those contributions, if licenced under LGPL+GPL will be
> still available once the project gets its licenced changed.
>
> After all, x264 is already quite feature-rich, so it appears to me
> that companies have a lot more to gain from the licence change than
> the project, all the more if the company contributions are few are far
> between.
>
> Making money with free software is A Ok, as long as both parties
> benefit from the greater spectrum of users.
>
> Just my 2c...
>
> Guillaume
>
> --
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>     Bill Cosby
>
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>
>   

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