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Would you need a license for H.264 and other codecs, if you wanted to put up a fully open source MIT-licensed custom-purpose libVLC-based player that you create
by winter_blue 11y ago
Would you need a license for H.264 and other codecs, if you wanted to put up a fully open source MIT-licensed custom-purpose libVLC-based player that you created on the iOS, Android, Mac, et al app stores?
- jbk 11y agoFirst, libVLC is LGPL. But for the other part, it depends. For MPEG-4 ASP or H.264, this is usually decoded by the hardware or the OS. For some other codecs, notably Dolby and DTS, it's more tricky.
- winter_blue 11y agoOop, I should have been more clear -- I meant patent licenses for codecs that are still encumbered by patents.