On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 18:39:41 +0530,
Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So you all already heard the news, Google has released web-m as a
royalty free format under a BSD license style license. They have also
have started using it in YouTube. So if we get things aligned, Fedora
14 would be able to play YouTube out of the box which is a pretty major
thing not to mention a boost for the open web.
This is a huge deal for the web and for individual people (did you know
there are restrictions on what you do with output from digital cameras
that use h264?), so be sure to thank Google for doing this.
Expect a patent fight before the end of this.