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> Great that they want to release it as open source as well That is indeed good, but I was worried to see > Duetto is based on the LLVM stack, and uses patent
by azakai 14y ago
> Great that they want to release it as open source as well
That is indeed good, but I was worried to see
> Duetto is based on the LLVM stack, and uses patent-pending algorithms to ensure the highest performance.
on their site. Not sure how it could be open sourced if it's patented.
- shared4you 14y agoPatenting by itself is no harm. Many open-source licenses grant an explicit or implicit patent license to the source code. So, open-source + patented is certainly possible. A recent example is the case where Google bought patent license from MPEG-LA for VP8 codec. And then Google sublicensed it, giving a royalty-free patent license for every user of VP8 codec, along with the source code.