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<i>"What has Google done about the (presumably
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numerous) patents covered by the FFMPEG code? Google's a US company,
so
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they can't ignore software patents. Have they bought a license from
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MPEG-LA (covering the MPEG-4 video patents implemented by FFMPEG)? If
so,
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this is the first time I've heard of GPL MPEG codec software being
legally
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licensed."</i><br>
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for MPEG4 ASP here ---> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mpegla.com/m4v/m4v-licensees.cfm">http://www.mpegla.com/m4v/m4v-licensees.cfm</a>
(Google is #76)</font><br>
for H264 here --->
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mpegla.com/avc/avc-licensees.cfm">http://www.mpegla.com/avc/avc-licensees.cfm</a> (Google is #10)<br>
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