[x264-devel] x264 licensing

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

Hi x264 developers,
I don't know if any of you know Fluendo, but we are a company doing
multimedia solutions for Linux, mostly using the GStreamer framework.

We are currently looking into h264 encoding and we have a couple of
possibilities available, like write our own encoder, license it from
another company or try to use an open source project like x264.

We have no issue with contributing back and fixes and changes we do, but
since we would need to take out patent licenses in order to be able to
sell our services a lot of places we can't use x264 under the GPL.

So I am writing this mail to see if there is a possibility to be allowed
to take a snapshot copy of x264 and resell that under a proprietary
license. This doesn't necessary need to be the most recent copy,
depending on developer willingness. 

We are prepared to pay money for this right or sign a contract stating
that any changes we do will be contributed back or a combination of
these or other agreed upon terms.

Anyway, let me know if this is a possibility you are interested in
discussing. I tried sending a mail about this a little over a week ago
to Laurent, since his mail address was the first on the page, but I
didn't get a reply.

Sincerely,
Christian Schaller 


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Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Business Development Manager
Fluendo S.L.
Mobile Phone: +34 678093464
Office Phone: +34 933175153
Fax         : +34 934127034


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