[whatwg] Video codec requirements changed

Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves justivo at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 20:56:51 PST 2007


On 12/11/07, L. David Baron <dbaron at dbaron.org> wrote:
> # is not an additional submarine patent risk for large companies
>
> Is this something that can be measured objectively, or is it a
> loophole that allows any sufficiently large company to veto the
> choice of codec for any reason it chooses, potentially including not
> wanting the <video> element to succeed in creating an open standard
> for video on the Web?

I agree as well that that sentence is in need of better wording as to
avoid what may be an ambiguous statement.

-Ivo



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