Re: [Audio-video] Richard Stallman's speech at Norwich

[Jason Self]

Jeremy  Hansen <address@hidden> wrote ..
> Hi GNU AV folks-
> 
> Is there an issue with distributing RMS' speeches on Youtube? I know he asked 
> for
> a list of specific file types, but if they're on Youtube, it's not clear to me
> exactly how much control we have over the format. Any advice would be greatly 
> appreciated!

The single overarching principle is that the speeches should always be in free 
and unencumbered formats (Think Ogg Vorbis, Theora, WebM, Speex, FLAC, etc.)

People have uploaded RMS's speeches to YouTube in the past, probably without 
his knowledge or consent, and people were often only able to watch them with 
proprietary software (the Adobe Flash player) and patent-encumbered media 
formats.

Since YouTube now encodes videos into WebM alongside the patent-encumbered 
media formats it seems like less of an issue to me but it's probably best to 
write RMS directly and get his response about putting his speeches there.

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