Is there a codec, potentially old or not currently functioning, that is free and that could be freely modified/improved to make a new free codec that Apple and Nokia and others would not challenge? Potentially, some funding could be donated by groups like the FSF or commercial players?
<br><br>Marc d'Entremont<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2008 1:12 PM, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <<a href="mailto:rudd-o@rudd-o.com">rudd-o@rudd-o.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you need to pay ˘1 for copies distributed, then it isn't royalty free and<br>it can't be on the standard as a requirement. Flat fee is not royalty free.<br><br>YES, I MEANT BEING ABLE TO USE IT WITHOUT PAYING ANY KIND OF FEE.
<br><br>Am I too daft for my words to be understood?<br><br>El Lunes 07 Ene 2008, escribió:<br>> On Jan 7, 2008 7:36 PM, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <<a href="mailto:rudd-o@rudd-o.com">rudd-o@rudd-o.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Out of the question, it must be royalty-free. That's one of the<br>> > requirements, so unless you can convince the holder to go RF, no chance.<br>><br>> Did you even read what I wrote?<br>><br>
> >>RAD doesn't charge royalties - period. You pay one flat-fee to use Bink<br>> >>or Smacker in your product.<br>><br>> If you mean being able to use it without paying _any kind_ of fee,<br>> that's another thing.
<br>><br>> Royalty: a sum of money paid to a patentee for the use of a patent or<br>> to an author or composer for _each_ copy of a book sold or for _each_<br>> public performance of a work.<br>><br>> And about your last sentence.. As I said:
<br>> >>It might be worth trying to contact RAD and see if this could be a<br>><br>> walkable road.<br>><br>> -- Federico BP<br><font color="#888888"><br><br><br>--<br><br> Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <
<a href="mailto:rudd-o@rudd-o.com">rudd-o@rudd-o.com</a>><br> Rudd-O.com - <a href="http://rudd-o.com/" target="_blank">http://rudd-o.com/</a><br> GPG key ID 0xC8D28B92 at <a href="http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/" target="_blank">
http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/</a><br><br>Now playing, courtesy of Amarok: Sonique - It feels so good<br>Your boss is a few sandwiches short of a picnic.<br></font></blockquote></div><br>