On Mar 7, 2016, at 2:12 PM, Justin Couch <jus...@vlc.com.au> wrote: > > On 7/03/2016 1:42 PM, Mark Newton wrote: >> Reputable standards bodies insist on open royalty free patent licensing >> these days. The ones that don’t are slowly marginalizing themselves. > > Incorrect. I've been involved in the ISO standards writing process for just > over 20 years now - including part of the MPEG 4 and 7 standards, so I know > it inside out.
Then you’d know that RAND licensing is an area of active controversy, which some standards bodies have taken an active role in, particularly in the data communications space. >> I can write an MPEG implementation which interoperates with everyone else’s >> MPEG streams and distribute it in competition with other MPEG >> implementations, by following the text of the standard. > > No you can't. You can try, but they will come after you, particularly if you > write an encoder. That's why alternates like Ogg guys started out - to > completely avoid the patents. … and yet here I am, sitting in front of a workstation loaded with free software, including a rich set of AV tools which support decode and encode in mp2, mp3 and mp4, for which no royalties have been paid to anyone. - mark _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
