Via Slashdot comes word that MPEG LA is extending their free license on the h.264 codec until 2016. The patent itself though, doesn't expire until 2028, and while the world might have moved on by then, 2016 is close enough to ask the question: "What then?".

H.264, for those not in the know, is one of the codecs in the running for the de-facto next generation video standard on the web. I'm still with Mozilla on this: get it right now, it's early days and we don't want to be stuck with something as important as this on a patent-encumbered codec.

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