Google WebM?

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Thu May 20 18:48:31 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:43:10AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Hi, Justin--
> 
> On May 20, 2010, at 1:17 AM, Justin Clift wrote:
> > Google have released the VP8 codec from On2 under a BSD license, adding an additional clause regarding patents:
> > 
> >  http://www.webmproject.org/license/software/
> > 
> > Should it just be regarded as pretty much a standard BSD license, with no real need to get it reviewed and added to the OSI License list?
> 
> Well, it's the 3-clause BSD license with the old advertising clause included,

Actually it does not have the old advertising clause (it has an
anti-publicity clause like the standard 3-clause BSD license). 

- RF






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