The Opencast project is looking for those who have experience in licensing issues related to various codecs. It was posted yesterday to the Opencast Community email list.
Who uses ffmpeg to encode their media? Have you considered licensing fees for codecs and media distribution? Did you happen to run this by your insitution’s lawyer?
When institutions install Matterhorn they will have the opportunity to install ffmpeg, Matterhorn’s encoding service reference impl out of the box. We want to provide adopters (and their lawyers) with legal case studies to clarify legal ambiguities around codecs and ffmpeg.
We also could use a lawyer or two to clarify some ffmpeg installation questions. Does any institution have a legal resource that can join the list?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Best,
Adam (Matterhorn Project Manager)
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