[x264-devel] Re: x264 licensing

[David Pio]

wouldn't this issue be solved by the previous conversation abuot converting
x264 to LGPL?
Then your custom patented code can stay close source, while you link to the
open source 264 library...

On 2/7/06, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <christian at fluendo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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