Talk:VP8

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References needed

This page needs references for the claims it makes. --Tegbains (talk) 07:42, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Introductory wording

"VP8 is an open source, a proprietary video codec..." - wait, what? How can it be open source and proprietary at the same time? That makes no sense. -- Wjbuys (talk) 08:34, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The wording is supposed to say formerly proprietary. 86.83.239.142 (talk · contribs) changed it on the assumption that it couldn't be open source unless it was turned over to a standards body. This is incorrect, and someone else has since changed it back.
--Gyrobo (talk) 17:00, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I can see VP8's source code. Therefore, it is open-source. The "owned by Google" part further on the sentence describes what you want to say. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DanimothWiki (talk • contribs) 18:11, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

VP8 is a video compression format.

It is proprietary which means that Google alone holds exclusive rights to VP8. VP8 is not placed in the public domain or handed to a standardization organization like h.264 or VC-1 which are public standards for which the copyrights belong to those standardization organizations. Google alone controls improvements or new versions of VP8.
It is an open format because the specification is available free for anybody and Google has promised irrevocably to not assert its patents against users and implementers in its VP8 bitstream format specifcation license. http://www.webmproject.org/license/bitstream/
The codec software which Google released under different license (a BSD like license is just an implementation of VP8. That is implementation is the only part that is released as an open source codec. It does not make VP8 open source but makes for at least one open source VP8 implementation.

So concluding VP8 is a proprietary video compression format, it is an open video compression format and it has at least one open source implementation. 86.83.239.142 (talk) 06:01, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]