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I think it might be because they engineered their own solutions for decoding those. Licensing fees usually need to be paid out when you use the decoder made by

I think it might be because they engineered their own solutions for decoding those. Licensing fees usually need to be paid out when you use the decoder made by the company. If you figure out the format and roll your own decoder, though, I think you don't have to pay licensing fees, especially when the software is non-commercial. You can't pay for VLC so there's no damages.

eesmith 9y ago
What you described applies to copyright. Patent licensing is different. There can be damages even for no-cost software because it isn't measured by the profits or earnings from the software but by the market loss on other software profits.