The empeg team already should have had a free license for Tremor before it was relicensed anyway.
It's cool though still since the old license was just for the empeg car player and not the Rio central or Rio receiver. So now there is a slightly bigger chance of happening since it can be put into other products as well and not just the EOLed empeg car.

Yes. Xiph's offer of a free Tremor licence for the car-player was extremely generous of them, and we (developers) were very grateful. However, any licence like that, even a free one, would have to go through Sonicblue's legal team etc., all of whom have had other things on their hands more commercially important than handing out free upgrades to discontinued products! So now that we can just download it and get on with it, Ogg has indeed become a more likely proposition.

I can fairly safely say it won't be in 2.0 final, but I'm still hoping it will show up in some kind of beta or technology preview after 2.0.

Peter