[opus] CELT license

[John Ridges]

Well that's good news. I understand that just because Mozilla decided it 
was OK doesn't give me any cover, but Tim is certainly in a better 
position than me to make that decision since A) Tim actually understands 
how the codec works and B) has a legal team to get approval from. It 
also occurs to me that, irrespective of the IETF, Xiph itself would 
probably not adopt opus if they thought it was encumbered.

--John

On 8/1/2012 2:36 PM, Ralph Giles wrote:
> On 12-08-01 1:02 PM, John Ridges wrote:
>
>> The big unknown for me is Huawei. I have not heard anything from anyone
>> on whether opus infringes on the Huawei patent or not. On the IETF list,
>> discussing IP issues was discouraged, but I hope now that the Xiph list
>> is active again the developers can give us some insight on that.
> With legal issues it's best to make your own determination, since patent
> law provides no certaintly. Difficult as that is for engineers.
>
> I can offer that, presenting Opus to the RTCWeb working group at the
> IETF meeting on Monday, Tim stated with approval from his legal team,
> that Mozilla has now deployed Opus without paying any licensing fees.
>
>   -r
>
>