Google's patent license for VP8 [was: Google WebM?]

[Chris Travers]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Matthew Flaschen
<matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:

> So this license (separate from the modified BSD software license at
> http://www.webmproject.org/license/software/) applies to any
> implementation of the specification.
>
> Matt Flaschen
>

It's also potentially a broader license grant.  I'm wondering,
however, why Google didn't just point to the specification in the
patent grant.  "This implementation" strikes me as ambiguous after
changes have been applied.