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How ready is your browser for HTML5- Take the test
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| HTML5 is the second most buzzed word
| around I think, second only to the
| Hypepad. In case you're wondering whether
| your current browser is compatible with it
| or not, a simple tool to help you
| determine this is the HTML5 test tool.
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http://www.ghabuntu.com/2010/06/how-ready-is-your-browser-for-html5.html
â Standing Up To The Man
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| To be clear, MPEG-LA is a parasite using
| standards bodies as its host, whether they
| want it or not. This page makes it clear
| that the parasite is looking for new
| hosts. Patent reform is now way overdue.
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http://webmink.com/2010/06/06/links-for-2010-06-06/
Open standards - the Apple way
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| There's open as the rest of the world
| thinks of it and there's Apple open, which
| is what Steve Jobs wants it to mean. Jobs
| is very keen to dismiss Flash as a
| proprietary product, which it is, although
| iPhones and iPads also run proprietary
| operating systems.
|
| [...]
|
| Google is going down a different path
| entirely. Last month, it released VP8, a
| genuinely open compression format designed
| to handle multimedia on the web and not be
| beholden to proprietary software. Unlike
| Apple, the company does have a genuine
| commitment to openness. Having said that,
| there is a debate as to whether VP8 is
| quite as open as it appears to be - and
| whether it differs much from H.264.
|
| But the difference is that Google is, I
| believe, genuinely looking top open
| standards, while Apple is a law unto
| itself.
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http://blogs.techworld.com/the-blue-screen/2010/06/open-standards---the-apple-way/
Apple posts HTML 5 demo page
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20006810-37.html
Apple's HTML5 'standards' hype debunked
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/04/apple_html5_showcase_hype/
Google's $124.6m open codec hits Chrome dev build
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/04/google_chrome_dev_build_gets_vp8/
Chrome gets Google's new video tech
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20006782-12.html
Google releases Webm to developers
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1652649/google-releases-webm-developers
WebM (VP8): a license update and the gift horse fallacy
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| Google's WebM initiative is somewhere in
| the middle between a true act of
| generosity and an IBM-style scheme:
|
| * There's no reason to assume that
| Google wants to hurt the FOSS cause in
| any way with WebM, especially not in
| any IBM-like way. I don't put it past
| Google to have that intention
| elsewhere: they might do anything,
| including the use of patents, to
| destroy an open source search
| technology that could adversely affect
| their core business. However, in this
| particular context of video codecs, I
| don't think they intend to cause harm.
| I do believe them that they want more
| competition in this case.
|
| * What Google does do -- and what I
| believe the FOSS community must
| approach cautiously -- is to shift
| most of the risk to others while
| keeping most of the benefits to
| itself. Businesses like to do that,
| but FOSS developers and users
| shouldn't lose sight of the risks just
| out of excitement over the idea of
| getting a seemingly "unencumbered"
| codec.
|
| Google will retain control over WebM
| despite open-sourcing program code and
| publishing specifications
|
| A common misconception about open source
| and "free" specifications is that this
| would make something such as the WebM
| project independent from a single vendor
| or a group of vendors. Some think this
| puts "the community" in charge.
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http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/06/webm-vp8-license-update-and-gift-horse.html
Simon Phipps (OSI):
Google Fixes WebM Licence
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| Google has also eliminated the
| incompatibility with the GPLv2 and GPLv3
| licences that existed in the original
| language, which means that it will be
| possible for WebM to be readily
| incorporated in the GNU environment and in
| GNU/Linux.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=3002&blogid=41
Google's updated WebM license
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| A couple of weeks ago Google announced
| their WebM project, which provided a free
| software implementation of their VP8 video
| codec and a license to exercise the
| patents the company held on the software.
| (This after we appealed to them to do just
| that a couple of months prior.) The
| license they chose was unambiguously free:
| a three-clause BSD license combined with a
| patent license based on one found in the
| Apache License 2.0. Unfortunately, the
| interaction between the copyright license
| and the patent license made the result
| GPL-incompatible. Based on the concerns of
| developers writing GPL-covered software,
| Google publicly stated that they would
| take some time to review the WebM license
| and try to address the community's
| concerns. Today, they released a revised
| license, and it is GPL-compatible.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/googles-updated-webm-license
Recent:
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
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