Re: [LUG] let the party begin

[tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Beard wrote:
> On 19/05/10 19:17, tom wrote:
> > VP8 set free
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/19/google_chrome_announcement/
> > Tom te tom te tom
>
> Great init.  I posted something last night about that but it didn't 
> appear, not sure what happened.
>
> Still it's got to be a good thing.  Finally a royalty free codec to 
> compete with H264 which can be implemented in the HTML5 standard.
>
> I see that Adobe are going to incorporate it and Microsoft will 
> support it assuming you have the VP8 codec installed.
>
> I see Google have also gone for a modified BSD license, seems to be a 
> BSD license with a clause about patients... 
? you mean sick puppies like patent trolls?
Tom te tom te tom
> or something (kind of like a BSD answer to GPL3?).
>
> Rob


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