[x264-devel] Terms of use

[Tomas Carnecky]

On 10/29/2008 03:42 PM, patrick at vvssystems.com wrote:
> Hi team x264,
>
> I represent a new company name VODI that will soon offer a system of video
> on demand. We have a large library of movies that we have encoded
> using your x264 codec. We intend to first distribute them through our
> intranet to hotel then in the future we will provide our service
> throughout internet. We'll be using VLC media player, witch is under
> the GPL license, and with your codec it will make a great product. I
> want to make sure that we have your collaboration about the
> distribution and want to know if their royalties we have to pay to
> licensors and also if you have any others informations that you think
> might be useful for us it would be greatly appreciated.

x264 is merely an implementation of the H.264 codec. If you want to use 
the codec in a commercial software, you'll have to contact the MPEG-LA 
as they are in charge of collecting the licensing fees on behalf of all 
companies that hold MPEG patents.

See http://www.mpegla.com/

tom