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... except you need to pay loads of money for the (edit: HEVC) license
by out_of_protocol 8y ago
... except you need to pay loads of money for the (edit: HEVC) license
- saagarjha 8y agoWhy? The "licensing" information at the bottom of the page makes it seem like it's open source?
- Youden 8y agoBecause it's based on HEVC. HEVC patents have a very complex (and expensive) licensing situation right now.
- okket 8y agoOpen Source does mean it is free of patents.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoDoes not mean it is free of patents.
- okket 8y agoOops, right. I really thought I wrote this. Sorry.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoYeah, I assumed it was just a typo, but I figured we wanted to be absolutely clear here.
- okket 8y agoI promise I will never become a lawyer or write math books.
- slavik81 8y agoThe author can only give up his own rights. Identifying and acquiring any patent rights owned by other people is up to you.
- gojomo 8y agoPatent complications do seem to be a factor, but it's unclear if in practice it'd be "loads of money", as the project page suggests many existing systems already have licensed decoding capabilities. Also, one of the patent pools covering HEVC announced in 2016 that software-only implementations would be royalty-free: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hevc-advance-announces-royalty-free-hevc-software-300367212.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hevc-advance-announ... Whether still-other licenses from other patent-holders might be necessary for software-only, in-browser decoding is unfortunately murky.