Plans to support AV1 video codec?

[Carlos Rafael Giani]

 From reading their license, and from the Reddit comments here: 
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6h08z5/google_is_currently_trying_to_patent_video/

it seems that this is intended to be a defensive patent. Which is much 
more in line with the whole goal of AOM.


On 2017-06-25 18:53, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-06-25 at 08:45 -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote:
>> The sad thing about this new codec is that after the inventor of part
>> of the encoder helped
>> Google for 3 years to integrate his algorithm with AV1, they are now
>> trying to patent his invention:
>>
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583691
> AFAIU that says that Google applied for a patent. So this generally
> needs more context to say anything, but keep in mind that Google also
> supposedly owns patents related to VP8/9/10 (which it got together with
> On2 back then), but it grants a free (etc) patent license for every use
> (see the libvpx license for details/accurate wording). In theory for
> AV1 this could also be for defensive measures. Who knows? They should
> really clarify that somewhere though.
>
> However I doubt that they plan to make AV1 useless (could as well use
> HEVC then) considering how much time and effort they put into it.
>
>
>
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