WebM Project Announces Community Cross-License Initiative
April 25, 2011 — The WebM Project today announced an initiative to establish a Community Cross-License (the CCL) with 17 founding members.
Google, Matroska and the Xiph.Org Foundation already make the components of WebM openly available on royalty-free terms.
With the establishment of the CCL, CCL members will agree to license patents they may have that are essential to WebM technologies to other members of the CCL.
The founding members of the initiative are:
- AMD
- Cisco Systems
- Google Inc.
- HiSilicon Technologies (for itself and on behalf of its parent, Huawei)
- LG Electronics
- Logitech
- Matroska
- MIPS Technologies
- Mozilla Corporation
- Opera Software
- Pantech
- Quanta Computer
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- STMicroelectronics (for itself and its 50/50 joint venture, ST-Ericsson)
- Texas Instruments
- Verisilicon Holdings
- Xiph.Org Foundation
About the WebM Project
The WebM Project launched in May, 2010 with the goal of establishing a high-quality, open video format for the web. Since then, WebM support has shipped in millions of web browsers and devices worldwide. To learn more, visit webmproject.org. To learn more about the WebM CCL, visit webm-ccl.org.