[x264-devel] Re: H.264 encoder

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 2/1/06, JGJones <jgjones at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

As stated here: http://www.openh323.org/fom-serve/cache/7.html
OpenH232 is covered by the Mozilla Public License, which doesn't seem
incompatible with the GPL. So my guess is just that OpenH232 lacks ppl
to add x264 support.

Guillaume

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