ffmpeg/x265 don't own the patents, so their license has no right to grant you them. Beware that using ffmpeg/x265 may be illegal if you're in a country that re

ffmpeg/x265 don't own the patents, so their license has no right to grant you them. Beware that using ffmpeg/x265 may be illegal if you're in a country that recognizes software patents. You need to pay patent fees even if you wrote the software 100% yourself. You need to pay even if you independently invented the same algorithms later than the patent was filed. To quote Carmack: > "The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying."