[vorbis] VP3.2 video codec open sourced

Joe ) piman at sacredchao.net
Sun Sep 9 12:31:09 PDT 2001



On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 09:24:12PM +0200, smoerk wrote:
> On2 released the VP3.2 video codec as open source. I didn't read the
> license and could not say if it's really open source.

It's not really open source. You can't use the code to write
anything but VP3.2-compatible programs, and it looks like it's still
under quite a few patents.


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