Have the patents for H.264 MPEG-4 AVC expired yet? - Meta
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    • GHiLAEnglish
      21•3 months ago

      Never cared. I’m one of those people that would indeed download a car.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•3 months ago

      That depends on where you live. In many parts of the world, software patents don’t exist and aren’t applied.

    • @PieMePlentyEnglish
      7•3 months ago

      Commercial use requires payment to patent holders, free use does not (whenever end user does not pay to watch). I dont know how ad supported streams are categorized, probably commercial. For personal use, I wouldnt worry about the license. Worry when you start a streaming server and start making revenue.

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        It is also illegal in most places beside France

        Not enforced so you should use it but it is technically illegal. Same thing with Linux distros shipping anything under patent.

        • @[email protected]English
          -1•3 months ago

          I think you’re mixing the libdvdcss library for playing protected DVDs or referring to some other non-free, patented codec with the x264 package implementation of the H.264 codec, which the patent holders allowed to be used freely for non-commercial use.