Can we get an official fedora position on OpenH264?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 4 19:31:44 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> If Fedora is not going to implement (or remove) the ability for Firefox
> the ability to download the OpenH264 binary from Cisco, this might affect
> the decision to have H.264 as a mandatory to implement codec for WebRTC.
> It has been suggested that it might help Fedora to comment on the project's
> position on the WebRTC's mailing list, particularly as it is looking more
> likely for H.264 to be mandatory now that Cisco is going to provide a
> binary implementation free of cost when downloaded directly from Cisco.
>
> Several people have stated that Fedora will not allow this, but it would
> be nice to know the official situation and to comment on that to the
> working group.
>
> The thread discussing this is:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-November/191153.html
>
> The vote on this is coming up this week, so we don't have much time to
> comment.

CC'ing Fedora legal.

josh


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