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Google adds VP8 / WebM support to Chrome Dev channel
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| The Google Chrome developers have released
| the latest developer channel (a.k.a. the
| Dev channel) version of Chrome. Version
| 6.0.422.0 of its WebKit-based web browser
| features a number of bug fixes and adds
| support for the latest open WebM / VP8
| video format introduced by Google as part
| of the WebM Project. Once Google considers
| the Dev builds to be stable enough, they
| are promoted to its Beta channel for
| future testing.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-adds-VP8-WebM-support-to-Chrome-Dev-channel-1015463.html
Whoâs Supporting WebM on Linux?
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| All in all, the Linux community has made a
| lot of progress implementing support for
| WebM in two short weeks. Given that few
| content providers are supporting the codec
| yet (Google-owned YouTube being the major
| exception), free-software users are ahead
| of the curve on this issue. And thatâs
| definitely the right side of the curve to
| be on.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2010/06/03/whos-supporting-webm-on-linux/
Changes to the WebM Open Source License
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| You'll see on the WebM license page and in
| our source code repositories that we've
| made a small change to our open source
| license. There were a couple of issues
| that popped up after we released WebM at
| Google I/O a couple weeks ago,
| specifically around how the patent clause
| was written.
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http://webmproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/changes-to-webm-open-source-license.html
Google resolves WebM licensing conflict with BSD license
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| Google is adopting the BSD license for
| WebM in order to address a licensing
| conflict. When Google opened up the VP8
| codec and announced the launch of the WebM
| project during the Google I/O conference
| last month, the actual license under which
| the code was distributed was not an
| official open source software license. It
| was a custom license that had not yet been
| approved by the Open Source Initiative
| (OSI), the organization responsible for
| maintaining the open source definition and
| validating licenses.
|
| Google's custom license posed some
| problems because it included clauses that
| made it incompatible with GNU's General
| Public License (GPL), the most widely-used
| open source software license. It was a
| minor technicality, but one that would
| have broadly precluded adoption of WebM in
| many popular open source software
| applications. Fortunately, Google has
| rectified the conflict and has found an
| acceptable way to harmonize its licensing
| terms with the GPL.
|
| [...]
|
| To avoid the resulting incompatibility
| with the GPL, Google decided to use a
| standard BSD license instead for the
| software copyright and draft a separate
| set of terms for the WebM patent grant.
|
| "Using patent language borrowed from both
| the Apache and GPLv3 patent clauses, in
| this new iteration of the patent clause
| we've decoupled patents from copyright,
| thus preserving the pure BSD nature of the
| copyright license," wrote DiBona. "This
| means we are no longer creating a new open
| source copyright license, and the patent
| grant can exist on its own."
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/google-resolves-webm-licensing-conflict-with-bsd-license.ars
WebM project changes to standard open source licence
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| By removing that part of the custom
| licence, what is left is a "three clause"
| BSD licence which is an OSI approved form
| of open source licence. Simon Phipps, the
| OSI board member who pointed out the
| original problem, was "pleased to say that
| project is now fully open source" in his
| blog where he congratulated Google on the
| "timely and welcome" correction of its
| "licencing and community-relations error".
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/WebM-project-changes-to-standard-open-source-licence-1016035.html
Recent:
Mozilla hires open-standards guru Celik
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| Firefox parent company Mozilla Corp. has
| hired Tantek Ãelik, a well-known figure in
| the developer and open-Web community, for
| the role of Web standards lead.
|
| But as Mozilla deals with internal issues
| and a continued threat from Google's Chrome,
| where exactly does this hire fit in? CNET
| spoke with Ãelik on Tuesday, on the eve of
| his first day at the new job, and rather
| than talking about keeping ahead of Chrome
| or dealing with Facebook's increasing
| dominance, he said that what's really in his
| crosshairs is the iPhone--and how pretty it
| makes everything.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20005987-36.html
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