Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
by Moosdijk on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:02AM
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I think it's internally. The article also states that the users of the code would still have to pay the royalties.
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Re:An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
by Delk on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:56PM
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No, it's not only internal use, as long as it's Cisco's binary that's being distributed. That's how for example Firefox ships H.264 decoding support.
The license does not cover any other binaries built from the same Cisco source code, though.
The Wikipedia article is also fairly clear about this and says: "any software projects that use Cisco's source code instead of its binaries would be legally responsible for paying all royalties to MPEG LA themselves, however."
(emphasis mine)