This is quite old: the patent "issue" is more clear, see http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/google-mpeg-la-agree-to-royalty-free-terms-for-vp

This is quite old: the patent "issue" is more clear, see http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/google-mpeg-la-agree-to-royalty-free-terms-for-vp8-video-codec/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/google... . There is still an issue with Nokia ( http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2035/ http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2035/ ) but at the moment it looks like that everybody is ignoring them.