I have read a few articles about this - and I think Livecode doesn't have a problem with building it in - here is my take.
Foe under 100,000 uses/sales/installs (whatever) there is no charge. 100,000 to 250,000 is $25000 I assume Livecode has NOT sold more than 100,000 copies of Indy or Business. Now there could be a chance that they might get 100,000 downloads of the open source LC so to cover yourselves why not only put it in the paid version. If LC ever gets 100,000 paid Indy/Business the $25,000 would be chump change. Now If I produce a program using the h264 encoder using my indy version of LC - I would have to sell (or give away) 100,000 programs before i need to pay a royalty. Now the only way this is going to happen is on the App store - not selling a desktop system so If the lite version of my program DOES NOT INCLUDE the h264 encoder but thge paid for version does if I get 100,000 downloads of the paid for version I would only need to pay a royalty of 25 cents for each sale? This also gives LC compelling l reason for putting something extra into the closed source version that people could appreciate Mark - can you find fault in my logic? And if not then if it is put into LC it would have a setting for include/exclude as with the other libraries. I'm sure if i sold 100,000 of anything at $499 - $25,000 would be petty cash. Regards Lagi Now at the rate that On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 at 22:48, Tom Glod via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > f-bomb! ty for those resources Richard. > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 3:48 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > Tom Glod wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 1:36 PM Mark Waddingham wrote: > > > > > >> H264 is patent encumbered - in order to distribute software > > >> containing an implementation you need to license the MPEG-LA patent > > >> pool. > > >> > > >> That's why you won't find any public CEF prebuilts with the flag > > >> enabled. > > > > > > If I do that ..... I then have to make my own build of CEF, My own > > > build of Livecode, and then build my standalones? What could go > > > wrong?.... > > > > Patent litigation. > > > > The licensing around h.264 is complex enough that the owning patent > > pool, MPEG-LA, has put together an FAQ to help navigate its rules: > > http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/FAQ.aspx > > > > Numerous lay articles have been written to help consumers and developers > > try to navigate that legal minefield: > > > > H.264, patent licensing, and you > > > > > https://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/know-your-rights-h-264-patent-licensing-and-you/ > > > > A closer look at the costs (and fine print) of H.264 licenses > > > > > https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-closer-look-at-the-costs-and-fine-print-of-h-264-licenses/ > > > > H.264 patents: how much do they really cost? > > > https://www.zdnet.com/article/h-264-patents-how-much-do-they-really-cost/ > > > > Oh so many more: > > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=h.264+patent+licensing > > > > -- > > Richard Gaskin > > Fourth World Systems > > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
