[Discussioni][NEWS] REALNETWORKS RELEASES INDUSTRY STANDARD SMIL SOURCE CODE TO HELIX COMMUNITY

[Andrea Glorioso]

http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2003/smilsource.html

Helix Developers Can Now Easily Create Helix DNA Client Products
Supporting Synchronized Multimedia

OSCON, Portland, OR - July 7, 2003  RealNetworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNWK),
a global leader in network-delivered digital media, today added to the
Helix  Community,  the  source   code  for   Synchronized   Multimedia
Integration  Language (SMIL,  pronounced   'smile'), the standard  for
synchronized display of digital presentations. With the source code of
SMIL  2.0 and the  Helix  DNA Client,  Helix community developers  can
support display of complex  presentations in their products. The Helix
DNA  Client  is already in    use  by major middleware  and   consumer
electronics companies to enable Internet media on consumer electronics
devices such as DVD players, set top boxes, PDAs, and mobile devices.

[...]

As  part of the  Helix DNA  Client, the SMIL  source  code is licensed
under  both  an OSI-certified public source   license and a commercial
community  source license.  Both   licenses  are free  of  charge  for
research and development use.  The  open source RealNetworks'   Public
Source License (RPSL)  is royalty free  and requires licensees to open
source their application.   The RealNetworks Community  Source License
(RCSL) includes a royalty for commercial  use and enables licensees to
retain proprietary control  over the   intellectual property in    the
products they build using the code.

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Per inciso, la   RPSL e` accettata dall'OSI   ma non (a quanto ne  so)
dalla FSF e nemmeno (di questo son sicuro) da Debian.

ciao,

andrea
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