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Canonical Explains Decision to License H.264 For Ubuntu

Posted by timothy on from the less-painful-to-pay dept.

tux writes with this snippet from The Register: "Ubuntu's commercial sponsor Canonical has tried to clarify how — if not why — it has licensed a closed-source and patented codec for video on PCs running its Linux. Canonical is the first Linux shop to have agreed to license the codec in question, H.264, from MPEG LA. Even though Red Hat and Novell are also available for use on PCs, they have not licensed H.264."

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  1. Re:Misleading title and summary by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Reading the article and linked articles points out ...

    But I'm illiterate, you insensitive clod!