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The AOM patent license covers any implementation of the format. It additionally covers the reference implementation, because the encoder may use techniques that
by TD-Linux 9y ago
The AOM patent license covers any implementation of the format. It additionally covers the reference implementation, because the encoder may use techniques that aren't part of the bitstream format, and it's important to grant rights to those too.
http://aomedia.org/license/patent/ http://aomedia.org/license/patent/
- indolering 9y agoIndeed, the whole point of Daala and AV1 is to do a really good job on the IP front so as to make it much harder for patent trolls to hold everyone hostage [0]. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Yc5Hn9bhQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Yc5Hn9bhQ