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shadowdaoandClaude Sonnet 5 14fa00af3f docs: OpenH264/MPEG-LA royalty finding sharpens C1 -- not resolved
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Cisco's own OpenH264 FAQ (openh264.org/faq.html) is explicit: they cover
MPEG-LA/AVC patent-pool royalties only for their own prebuilt binary,
downloaded at install time. Anyone who compiles OpenH264 from source
and redistributes it inside their own binary takes on "all applicable
license fees" themselves -- Cisco "will not be liable for any licensing
fees incurred by other parties" in that case.

LiveKit's client-sdk-cpp links Google libwebrtc via the webrtc-sdk
org's fork, whose documented build args (rtc_use_h264=true,
ffmpeg_branding="Chrome") are the standard Chromium/WebRTC recipe --
which links a from-source, statically-compiled copy of OpenH264 (from
Google's mirror, not Cisco's runtime binary) into libwebrtc. That is
exactly the shape of case Cisco's FAQ says voids their coverage. Not
independently confirmed against LiveKit's actual pinned v1.10.1 build
(their release archives ship only compiled output, no build manifest)
-- this is webrtc-sdk/libwebrtc's documented default, not a verified
fact about this specific artifact.

This sharpens C1 into a concrete mechanism instead of a general open
question. It does not resolve C1 -- if anything it strengthens the case
for treating it as unresolved -- and none of this is a substitute for
an actual legal opinion. Recorded in third_party/livekit/README.md (the
full writeup), README.md's Status section, and the release-notes
template in publish-release.sh so it reaches whoever opens a draft
release next, not just this one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RL8abRmgFXkVASHkkqiJbE
2026-09-07 07:45:36 -07:00
shadowdaoandClaude Sonnet 5 2b216d3d75 ci: add tag-triggered release packaging workflow
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Adds .gitea/workflows/release.yml, triggered only on a pushed v* tag, which
builds all three platforms (reusing the exact same configure/build/test
commands as build.yml, now factored out into .gitea/scripts/ so the two
workflows can't drift), zips each platform's build/package/ output, and
creates a draft Gitea Release with the archives attached.

This is packaging automation only -- it does not resolve or bypass the C1
WebRTC/OpenH264 release gate documented in README.md's Status section.
Nothing publishes until a human deliberately pushes a version tag (which
should not happen before owner sign-off) and then explicitly publishes the
resulting draft. The generated release notes lead with a restatement of the
open C1 question specifically so that second step can't be taken by
accident.

build.yml is refactored (not rewritten) to call the same shared scripts;
its job/step behavior is otherwise unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RL8abRmgFXkVASHkkqiJbE
2026-09-07 05:06:25 -07:00