<div dir="ltr"><div>Last year Polycom announced that they would release their H264 CODEC as open source. I haven't heard anything else about it other than to not change resolution after the decoder starts (it crashed last year). I have tried to get info about this but have not been successful. I don't know the status. I guess that with h265 on the horizon (and maybe h266???) h264 is 'old hat'.<br>
<br><a href="http://opensource.sys-con.com/node/2389173">http://opensource.sys-con.com/node/2389173</a><br><a href="http://www.polycom.com/company/news/press-releases/2012/20121008_3.html">http://www.polycom.com/company/news/press-releases/2012/20121008_3.html</a><br>
<br></div>Chuck Crisler<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:59 AM, muriel moscardini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:muriel@fluendo.com" target="_blank">muriel@fluendo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>hello,<br>
<br>
the Cisco announcement is great and is really interesting to
follow up. <br>
<br>
Our understanding at Fluendo, as licensee of many patent holders
like MPEGLA would be the following.<br>
(Please take it as our understanding, we are all still waiting for
more details about this)<br>
<br>
1. Cisco has announced they open their H264 codec under BSD
license, and provide the sources to everyone, without asking for
any fee.<br>
<br>
2. Then on the other side, they apparently will provide also a
binary of the same together with the MPEGLA patent license, at no
fee either. This is possible as Cisco apparently decided to pay
upfront the annual cap for H264, for this year and the following
(which represents more that 10M of $ a year). The condition is to
download the soft from their facilities.<br>
<br>
Which means<br>
- anyone wanting to use their H264 can do it, take the source and,
we suppose, do everything allowed by BSD (permissive license, you
can modify and even release a new version under a proprietary
license) with no other restriction. Let's see when it is released.<br>
<br>
- with the binary, for any application requesting H264, it is
possible to use the binary, push the user to download directly
H264 in Cisco premises the H264 binary and so the user will be
running H264 licensed.<br>
<br>
Warning: normally as far as we know the MPEGLA patent licenses
this should not allow people to take the the soft and resell it
budnled. Apparently the conditions for the binary is that it has
to be downloaded from Cisco web.<br>
<br>
We will follow this closely together with our legal too, as we
believe these are great actions when possible. At Fluendo we did
that some years ago with our MP3 decoder. We opened it under MIT
license, we paid upfront Thomson patent for Desktop use, and we
distribute it for free on our web including the Thomson license
(grab it on <a href="http://www.fluendo.com" target="_blank">www.fluendo.com</a>). But for any commercial distribution,
an agreement is still needed.<br>
<br>
I hope it helps <br>
<br>
regards<br>
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On 11/1/13 3:06 AM, elio francesconi wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Dear all,<br>
I want to share with you this important news to know your
opinion.<br>
Reading briefly this article it seems that Cisco, the codec's
owner don't want royalties anymore.<br>
What does it means, pratically?<br>
Thanks<br>
Elio</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/30/cisco-plans-to-open-source-h-264-code-for-webrtc/?ncid=rss_truncated" target="_blank">http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/30/cisco-plans-to-open-source-h-264-code-for-webrtc/?ncid=rss_truncated</a></p>
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