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If what you say is true (that Google has patents on WebM), then Google's claim of supporting WebM due to it being "open" is contradictory.
by brisance 16y ago
If what you say is true (that Google has patents on WebM), then Google's claim of supporting WebM due to it being "open" is contradictory.
- nitrogen 16y agoGoogle purchased the patents on WebM/VP8 when it acquired On2, and licensed them in an open-source-friendly, royalty-free way.
- brisance 16y agoIt is a patent owned by a corporation that has chosen to license them in a royalty-free way, in the exact same way that MPEG-LA has chosen not to charge fees for end users of MPEG4. The main distinction would be source code access, but as stated by others, that is no guarantee of infringement of others' intellectual property rights. Stated another way: if you had the source code to the MPEG4 codec, would your objections remain?