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It 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 fo
by brisance 16y ago
It 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?