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BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I thought h.264 patents are expired

Edit: it was patented in 2003, so 20 year period is gone already

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olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Wikipedia covers it nicely:

Since the first version of the standard was completed in May 2003 (22 years ago) and the most commonly used profile (the High profile) was completed in June 2004[citation needed] (21 years ago), some of the relevant patents are expired by now,[75] while others are still in force in jurisdictions around the world and one of the US patents in the MPEG LA H.264 pool (granted in 2016) lasts at least until November 2030.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding?wprov…

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quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
So paying is optional? I don’t get it…

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- BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Neither do I. Most of h264 is either open domain now or it will be very soon
  
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