THIS MORNING, CoreCodec, the company who spitefully used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to force Google to remove its open source coreavc-for-linux project, has apologised. The company says that it is now working with the search engine giant to get the project up and running again.
The coreavc-for-linux open source project allowed a high-definition video decoder called CoreAVC to run on Linux systems, as the company version of the codec only ran on Windows. Yesterday we reported that Google had complied with a DMCA takedown notice, which accused Google of infringing on CoreCodec's copyright. These allegations were blatantly false as the project in no way infringed on the codec’s code and was only ever meant to make the video decoder compatible with Linux applications like mplayer.
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