Fwd: Dailymotion for XO laptop

[NoiseEHC]

Thanks, it clarified a few things. I did not even think of the GPL and 
the QEMU images.

tridge at samba.org wrote:
> NoiseEHC,
>
>  > Sure, using Ogg over MP3 is totally okay, since it is not only free but 
>  > better than MP3. But as others said all the free video codecs are crap 
>  > compared to commercial ones. So my question: is there any reason that 
>  > the OLPC cannot license one good quality codec for ~10 cents? (Not sure 
>  > that it should be H.264 but anything else which runs with adequate speed 
>  > on the XO, and has VideoLAN support.)
>
> Depending on the license of the application that is loading the codec,
> it may be a license violation to license the patent. For example, if
> the application is GPL, then patent licensing is not an option.
>
> We could ask the SFLC to confirm if anyone is interested (I'm sure
> Eben Moglen would be happy to give a more complete answer), but I'd be
> surprised if they didn't agree,
>
> It also would be a community divider. It would mean all the free
> images (for qemu etc) would have to be different from the real X0
> images. Not good from a QA point of view.
>
> Plus, I suspect many people on this list hate patents just as much as
> I do and don't want to pay patent fees on principle :-)
>
> Cheers, Tridge
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