A comment from reddit where I asked the same question: No, even if patent expired those companies won't want to surrender their income. And there's nothing pre

A comment from reddit where I asked the same question: No, even if patent expired those companies won't want to surrender their income. And there's nothing preventing them for charging for their decoder if people are willing to pay for it. And if raspberry would have to provide these keys they would have to break their security scheme which would still be like breaking DRM. What expired patent means is that anyone else can implement their encoder/decoder legally, so perhaps future raspberry pi will have different implementation of the decoder that doesn't require keys. This is very much the same thing as with medication, you have brand name medication which is pricy, patent expires and much cheaper versions enter the market, but even then you can still purchase the brand version and pay more. There might still be minor differences. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7xjqy5/mpeg2_patents_have_expired_mpeg2_is_now_patent/du9y1uw/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7xjqy5/mpeg2_patents...