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BetaBoy · 20th December 2005, 16:13

Sharktooth... its to be determined still on if we keep it closed source or not. Reasoning is this... with TCPMP we have had 'alleged' thefts of our GPL source code and decoders that are in third party hardware/software. We have worked hard over the past three years to get were we are at now with CoreCodec/TCPMP and are going to take baby steps in protecting ANY of our projects IP.

Why invest our time to get our source code ripped off and that those doing the ripping do not comply with the GPL when we release it that way? Pretty sad since we also state that we own 100% of the code as well and offer a closed source alternative license to it, and they still OPT to steal it.

So with that being said... we are taking the cautious steps first with CoreAVC and yes, we have larger plans with our encoder like you had asked... we do plan on supporting ALL profiles and levels.

Now to get bond a directshow filter.... ;-)

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BetaBoy CoreCodec Founder Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: San Francisco Posts: 1,421	Sharktooth... its to be determined still on if we keep it closed source or not. Reasoning is this... with TCPMP we have had 'alleged' thefts of our GPL source code and decoders that are in third party hardware/software. We have worked hard over the past three years to get were we are at now with CoreCodec/TCPMP and are going to take baby steps in protecting ANY of our projects IP. Why invest our time to get our source code ripped off and that those doing the ripping do not comply with the GPL when we release it that way? Pretty sad since we also state that we own 100% of the code as well and offer a closed source alternative license to it, and they still OPT to steal it. So with that being said... we are taking the cautious steps first with CoreAVC and yes, we have larger plans with our encoder like you had asked... we do plan on supporting ALL profiles and levels. Now to get bond a directshow filter.... ;-) __________________ Dan "BetaBoy" Marlin Ubiquitous Multimedia Technologies and Developer Tools http://corecodec.com Last edited by BetaBoy; 20th December 2005 at 16:17.