Currently. But they might change their mind in
2015.
That's old. They came out and said
free forever.
I don't know about VLC's French connection, but aren't they using x264? In other words, an open source implementation that does run afoul of MPEG-LA licensing in itself. It's also used in a lot of other free software such as Handbrake, which is also in violation.
Will Mozilla be implementing WebM?
x264 is distributed out of the Netherlands, where they apparently share similar views with France. Handbrake also comes from France. The person I talked to about x264 specifically seemed to indicate MPEG-LA is pretty happy with them in general, as it did help to boost the number of H.264 users by quite a bit. And assuming someone in the US simply downloads the x264 source (not a decoder), and then compiles it (turning it into a decoder covered by the patents), then they fall under the free for 0-100,000 use part. This hasn't been fully legally tested, but these were his views on it.
And yes,
Firefox 4 includes WebM support.
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