Rainbird on 30 August 2010
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/26/mpeg-la-makes-h-264-video-royalty-free-forever-as-long-as-its/
MPEG-LA has made the h.264 standard royalty free so long as the technology is used, although only for those who use it for free distribution of content. So if you have a service that people pay for that uses h.264, you still have to pay royalties.
This is awesome! Hopefully Mozilla will support it in FF soon. 
