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		sliverstorm on Dec 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec I'm still confused why Cisco is even allowed to do this. Do they pay a flat license fee to MPEG-LA for unlimited usage? I would think they would pay per-seat like most video codecs.

garblegarble on Dec 13, 2013 [–]

It is, but there's a cap of $6.5M/year (and they'd get some of that back as payment for their patents in the pool)

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