James Wilson
2009-Jul-06 04:25 UTC
[theora] Commercial use and distribution of Theora codec?
Hello, ? I know that Theora is marketed as patent-free and free to use for any purpose, but a fellow over at Xvid.com told me that Theora in fact is based on MPEG tech, and therefore has some deep elements that people might eventually go after me for if I use it to encode commercially distributed video, and bundle the decode files with the game. Besides? that, I belive the license of theora allows commercial distribution. Am I right? So, what's the deal with this? ? Thanks alot, ? James -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/attachments/20090705/898c094d/attachment.htm
xiphmont at xiph.org
2009-Jul-06 04:45 UTC
[theora] Commercial use and distribution of Theora codec?
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:25 AM, James Wilson<jfcwilson at yahoo.com> wrote:> Hello, > > I know that Theora is marketed as patent-free and free to use for any > purpose, but a fellow over at Xvid.com told me that Theora in fact is based > on MPEG techNo.>, and therefore has some deep elements that people might > eventually go after me for if I use it to encode commercially distributed > video, and bundle the decode files with the game.Theora's been being used in games for nearly 10 years now.> Besides? that, I belive the license of theora allows commercial > distribution. Am I right?Yes, our license allows distribution for any purpose. Monty