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Originally posted by boxie View PostThis does seem kinda cool, but UDP does have some benefits - like multicast distribution for very large sites
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Originally posted by FishB8 View Post
Copyright law and Patent law are 2 separate things. LGPL is copyright. You can enforce patent royalties even though something is released under the LGPL copyright license. For instance, the x264 encoder is released under and open-source copyright, but if you use it you are still expected to pay patent licensing fees to the various patent holders.
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Originally posted by FishB8 View PostCopyright law and Patent law are 2 separate things. LGPL is copyright. You can enforce patent royalties even though something is released under the LGPL copyright license. For instance, the x264 encoder is released under and open-source copyright, but if you use it you are still expected to pay patent licensing fees to the various patent holders.
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Originally posted by (tpm) View Post
The LGPL contains patent clauses. The x264 case is slightly different, because it's not the MPEG consortium who is distributing x264 under the GPL license.
A 3rd party implementation is also difficult because although the code to this library is open source there is no documentation of the protocol. If they were serious about opening up the protocol they would have submitted an RFC documenting it.
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Originally posted by tssva View Post
The LGPL patent clauses only cover the use of the specific library or its derivatives. I can't create my own implementation of the SRT protocol without worrying about patents.
A 3rd party implementation is also difficult because although the code to this library is open source there is no documentation of the protocol. If they were serious about opening up the protocol they would have submitted an RFC documenting it.
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