Curious License Agreement

[rendezvouscp]

I was just wondering what this meant in Apple's license for Mac OS X, I read it when updating to 10.3.4.

13. AMR Notice. The Adaptive Multi-Rate ("AMR") encoding and decoding functionality in this product is not licensed to perform cellular voice calls, or for use in any telephony products built on the QuickTime architecture for the Windows platform. The AMR encoding and decoding functionality in this product is also not licensed for use in a cellular communications infrastructure including: base stations, base station controllers/radio network controllers, switching centers, and gateways to and from the public switched network.

–Chase

 

[Makosuke]

That's an amusing clause, though it probably would make sense if you understood the licencing scheme of the Quicktime codec it relates to.

Most likely it has to do with the recent 3GPP additions to Quicktime that allow a lot of crossover between content on cellphones. Apple probably had to licence some codec or part of a codec, and whatever cellphone organization owns it requires a clause like that before the'll licence the codec, to prevent "rogue" cellphone providers or people creating their own mini cellular networks or something like that.