[theora] gratuit mpeg-4 content stream licensing

[Ralph Giles]

Obviously not official, but I came across the following article about 
Apple's release of QuickTime 6. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-943990.html

To wit:
>
>  "We've made a lot of progress as an industry working with MPEG LA, 
> moving them considerably from where they were six months ago," said 
> Frank Casanova, Apple's director of QuickTime product marketing. 
> "They're primed to release a set of terms that the industry would find 
> more reasonable."
> ...
>  "If you don't charge for your content, you don't pay anything at all," 
> he said. "Therefore, MPEG-4 streaming will largely be free. It's just 
> those companies that have a pay-per-view model built into their 
> business model that would actually have to talk to MPEG LA."

So it looks like people may actually start using it. I think this is 
overall a good thing: better than the proprietary codecs 'everyone' uses 
now. However, it does reduce adoption pressure for theora back to vorbis 
levels.

The article doesn't mention codec license fees, which presumedly still 
apply.

  -r

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