Re: matroska container sold to IBM

Hello,Christian HJ Wiesner！

	Great!
    Congratulation!

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>Hi all,
>
>i have some great news to spread today, and i am indeed extremely happy 
>that i have the honour of doing so :
>
>The matroska project, including all source code and the main 
>specification, by signed contract dated 31st March 2003, was sold to the 
>International Bussiness Machine Corporation ( IBM ), New Orchard Road, 
>Armonk, NY 10504, USA. . My thanks goes to Dan 'Metaboy' Marlin from the 
>Corecodec team for making the initial contact, Dan, without you this 
>would have not been possible.
>
>IBM will convert the matroska project and all libraries into a closed 
>source format, but make the binaries of the library publically available 
>for non-commercial usage, together with an API to be able to read/write 
>matroska files from all applications on different OSes. An  arrangement 
>was made with all active developers to make it possible to allow a 
>changing of the existing GPL/QPL dual licensing system.
>
>After months of hard negotiations there can be no doubt that one of the 
>first commercial license takers of matroska will be the Matsushita 
>Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, chosing matroska as their main container 
>format for an upcoming proprietary blue laser DVD standard to be 
>released by Panasonic and some of their licensees on the new standard, 
>in an attempt to avoid the domination of the Windows Media Video 9 (TM) 
>standard from Micorosoft (R)  for next generations HDTV video. Panasonic 
>already announced they will use a wavelet based video codec called WARP, 
>created by the IBM video compression department around the well known 
>codec expert Mr. Toby Hudon ( performing wavelet on 512 consecutive 
>frames, and on every frame itself ), and to use the musepack audio 
>compression format ( MPC ) for audio.
>
>I sincerely hope that all of you will see the big advantage for the 
>opensource audio and video community in undertaking this step, as from 
>now on there will be one new standard a/v container, in possession of 
>one of the biggest computer companies of the world, but fully available 
>for the community.
>
>Best regards from Hawaii
>
>Christian
>http://www.matroska.org
>
>
>
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