<!--#include virtual="/ssi/header.include" --> <!-- Enter custom page information and styles here --> <title>April 25, 2011: WebM Project announces WebM-CCL</title> </head> <body> <!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" --> <!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" --> <!-- All your page content goes here --> <h3>WebM Community Cross-License Announced</h3> <p>The WebM Project today announced an initiative to establish a <a href="http://www.webm-ccl.org/">Community Cross-License</a> (the CCL) with 17 founding members.</p> <p>Google, Matroska and the Xiph.Org Foundation already make the components of WebM openly available on royalty-free terms.</p> <p>With the establishment of the CCL, CCL members will agree to license patents they have that may be essential to WebM technologies to other members of the CCL.</p> <p>The founding members of the initiative are:</p> <ul> <li>AMD <li>Cisco Systems <li>Google Inc. <li>HiSilicon Technologies (for itself and on behalf of its parent, Huawei) <li>LG Electronics <li>Logitech <li>Matroska <li>MIPS Technologies <li>Mozilla Corporation <li>Opera Software <li>Pantech <li>Quanta Computer <li>Samsung <li>STMicroelectronics (for itself and its affiliate, ST-Ericsson) <li>Texas Instruments <li>Verisilicon Holdings <li>Xiph.Org Foundation </ul> <h3>About the WebM Project</h3> <p><i>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 <a href="http://www.webmproject.org/">webmproject.org</a>.</i></p> <h3>About the Xiph.Org Foundation</h3> <p><i> The Xiph.Org Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to open, unencumbered multimedia technology. Xiph's formats and software level the playing field for digital media so that all producers and artists can distribute their work for minimal cost, without restriction, regardless of affiliation. May contain traces of nuts.</i></p> <!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagebottom.include" -->