Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 16th Oct 2007 20:45 UTC, submitted by Rahul
"Acting on the advice of the License Approval Chair, the OSI Board today approved the Microsoft Public License and the Microsoft Reciprocal License. The decision to approve was informed by the overwhelming (though not unanimous) consensus from the open source community that these licenses satisfied the 10 criteria of the Open Source definition, and should therefore be approved."
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2005-07-06
The VC1 codec is supported already via ffmpeg project - given Novells licencing with Microsoft, it should mean that Moonlight will support VC1 (along with Theora/ogg) out of the box.
I do not see the need at all to 'license' something from someone to read a particular format. Yes that means some reverse engineering, but that has never been explicitly illegal and has never required any sort of deal in the past.
But of course, Moonlight's existence, should Silverlight gain some critical mass, is entirely in the hands of these closed additional formats.