X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/978818ef7acc6b164a6da863eabea44d8d3300ef..f38deea9133f35d8c481a42fa956f1495b4bd400:/blog/data/2010-12-25-ogg-theora.txt diff --git a/blog/data/2010-12-25-ogg-theora.txt b/blog/data/2010-12-25-ogg-theora.txt index a0a4750f04..39fdd304f8 100644 --- a/blog/data/2010-12-25-ogg-theora.txt +++ b/blog/data/2010-12-25-ogg-theora.txt @@ -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 +Date: 2010-12-25 20:25

The Digistan definition of a free and open standard reads like this:

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ controlled by a single vendor, it isn't, but I have not found any documentation indicating this.

According to -a report +a report 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. @@ -138,7 +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.

No constraints on re-use?

@@ -152,3 +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.

+ +

It would be nice to see other analysis of other specifications to +see if they are free and open standards.