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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Title: Is Ogg Theora a free and open standard?
-Tags: english, standard, video
-Date: 2010-12-25 20:20
+Tags: english, standard, video, digistan, h264
+Date: 2010-12-25 20:25
 
 <p><a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">The
 Digistan definition</a> of a free and open standard reads like this:</p>
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ controlled by a single vendor, it isn't, but I have not found any
 documentation indicating this.</p>
 
 <p>According to
-<ahref="http://media.hiof.no/diverse/fad/rapport_4.pdf">a report</a>
+<a href="http://media.hiof.no/diverse/fad/rapport_4.pdf">a report</a>
 prepared by Audun Vaaler og Børre Ludvigsen for the Norwegian
 government, the Xiph foundation is a non-commercial organisation and
 the development process is open, transparent and non-Discrimatory.
@@ -120,7 +120,10 @@ revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.</p>
 </blockquote>
 
 <p>All these terms seem to allow unlimited distribution and use, an
-this term seem to be fulfilled.</p>
+this term seem to be fulfilled.  There might be a problem with the
+missing permission to distribute modified versions of the text, and
+thus reuse it in other specifications.  Not quite sure if that is a
+requirement for the Digistan definition.</p>
 
 <p><strong>Royalty-free?</strong></p>
 
@@ -135,7 +138,7 @@ them.  Both Opera Software and the Mozilla Foundation have looked into
 this and decided to implement Ogg Theora support in their browsers
 without paying any royalties.  For now the claims from MPEG-LA and
 Steve Jobs seem more like FUD to scare people to use the H.264 codec
-than any real problem with Ogg Theora.
+than any real problem with Ogg Theora.</p>
 
 <p><strong>No constraints on re-use?</strong></p>
 
@@ -149,3 +152,6 @@ background report used by the Norwegian government, I believe it is
 safe to assume the last two requirements are fulfilled too, but it
 would be nice if the Xiph foundation web site made it easier to verify
 this.</p>
+
+<p>It would be nice to see other analysis of other specifications to
+see if they are free and open standards.</p>