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There are known patents on Opus held by Xiph.org, Broadcom and Microsoft, all made freely available. But as per https://opus-codec.org/license/ https://opus-cod
by mappu 4y ago
There are known patents on Opus held by Xiph.org, Broadcom and Microsoft, all made freely available. But as per https://opus-codec.org/license/ https://opus-codec.org/license/ if you try patent litigation against anyone, your license to use any of these free patents is revoked.
So there's not many ways this pool can work. A company can only join it if they want to give up on ever using Opus themselves.
It's a really crazy move from Dolby since they have at least a few products that use Opus ( https://professional.dolby.com/product/dolby-voice/dolby-voice-room/ https://professional.dolby.com/product/dolby-voice/dolby-voi... , https://docs.dolby.io/communications-apis/docs/guides-dolby-voice https://docs.dolby.io/communications-apis/docs/guides-dolby-... , likely more)
- bscphil 4y ago> It's a really crazy move from Dolby since they have at least a few products that use Opus Seems like the strategy here is going to be to use FUD to leech small amounts of money from individual hardware device sales from the companies that can afford to pay it. It's just rent seeking. So long as they never actually sue anyone for their use of Opus, it seems like they'll be in the clear as far as the Opus license goes.
- nerdponx 4y agoSounds almost more like extortion. Edit: wouldn't it be pretty easy to call this bluff? you don't even have to try to win the court case, you just have to get them to sue you and immediately lose their license, or to admit that they can't sue you because they don't want to lose their own license, and the whole thing falls apart.
- account42 4y agoA more cynical view is that this is not about the opus licensing fees at all but rather to discourage use of opus in favor of Dolby's own alternatives.