MPEGLA just anounced that ”MPEG LA’s AVC License Will Not Charge Royalties for Internet Video That Is Free to End Users Through Life of License”. So is this the amazingly magic announcement that is going to change everything?
Well, actually. It changes almost nothing. It was royalty free for end users before this anouncemeant, it has just been extended until always. The people implementing H.264 codec still needs to pay up.
This will probably not change the minds of the people at Mozilla since they’d have to cough up millions every year to pay for the codec.
The announcement is not bad news and it’s not good news. It’s almost no news at all. There is a longer blog post about web codecs if you want more on the subject.
Have a week!
// Johan
