[osflash] H.264 support

[Victor]

If Red5 will not encode/decode H.264 itself (but will just retransmit 
H.264 streams from providers to consumers) - will it violate something?

Victor


Cedric Muller wrote:
> H.264 Licensing has nothing to do with Adobe ?
>
> MPEG-LA, LLC seems to hold the rights
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> and then, there is this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264
> "Conversely, shipping a product in the U.S. which includes an LGPL H. 
> 264 decoder/encoder would be in violation of the software license of  
> the codec implementation. In simple terms, the LGPL and GPL licenses  
> require that any rights held in conjunction with distributing and  
> using the code also apply to anyone receiving the code, and no  
> further restrictions are put on distribution or use. If there is a  
> requirement for a patent license to be sought, this is a clear  
> violation of both the GPL and LGPL terms. Thus, the right to  
> distribute patent-encumbered code under those licenses as part of the  
> product is revoked per the terms of the GPL and LGPL."
>
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