“Google has removed an open-source project that enables the
proprietary CoreAVC high-definition video decoder to run in Linux
following a complaint from the codec’s developer–but the project
could soon return.“‘In response to a complaint we received under the U.S. Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed project
‘coreavc-for-linux,” Google said in a brief statement posted on
the project hosting section of its Google Code web site for
developers…”
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