H.264 is Now Permanently Royalty-Free

I guess this settles it, doesn’t it? HTML5 may marry H.264 in peace and be forever (I mean, permanently) happy. Hope to see H.264 support on the final release of Firefox 4, then. On Chrome too.

MPEG LA:

«MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users (known as “Internet Broadcast AVC Video”) during the entire life of this License.»

(via MacRumors)