RE: [MPEGIF Discuss] MPEG-4 AVC reference code licensing

Charles,

> Provided the actual H.264/ AVC standard licensing issues are solved 
> one day (through MPEG LA and/or Via Licensing), will the reference 
> codec require a separate license, and how to obtain it?

There are two kinds of licenses in principle:
 - copyright
 - patent rights

There is a speciic header in the reference software modules that explains
the copyrights you have when you obtian the SW.  While the header is the
authoritative reference, I can loosely paraphrase by saying you can use it
freely as long as you use it for compliant implementations.

The license situation --and yes, we hope everything will be sorted out one
day-- is no different for implementations that start from the reference SW
than for implementations that start from any other software/hardware basis. 

Kind Regards,
Rob



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