Thread: Nokia attacks VP8
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shmerl is offline shmerl
2013-03-31 , 18:49
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#25
Originally Posted by uTMY View Post
You stated "Only codecs developed from the ground up by free software groups like Xiph are completely patents free
In reply to Wikiwide who wrote:

I get that VP8 is under a free license, and the patents are royalty-free, but I still would have preferred to have no patents at all (similarly to Dirac), and a license-as-open-as-possible. Both VP8 and Theora are derived from VP3; why is Theora not considered a worthy choice?
Meaning the patents filed by the creators. So I answered about the same subject - please pay attention to the discussion when replying, to save everyone's time. And I agree - there is no such thing as "completely patents free 100% guaranteed". Since you never know what kind of patent troll can surface up tomorrow attacking something. Literally no one is protected against it 100%. However for all practical purposes "no known patents" is good enough. That's how everything operates anyway.
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