<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> From reading their license, and from the Reddit comments here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6h08z5/google_is_currently_trying_to_patent_video/">https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6h08z5/google_is_currently_trying_to_patent_video/</a> it seems that this is intended to be a defensive patent. Which is much more in line with the whole goal of AOM. <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2017-06-25 18:53, Sebastian Dröge wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:1498409598.7556.104.camel@centricular.com"> <pre wrap="">On Sun, 2017-06-25 at 08:45 -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583691">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14583691</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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. </pre> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>