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Gergely Máté (sportember) wrote : Legal barriers and possible solutions

Lot of legal problems occures related with media codecs.

Please see this for ideas and brainstorming:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/multimedia-packages-policy

In a nutshell, we would need a patent royalty broker (or other solution) to be able to legally serve media-codec libraries - in some - highly computerized - jurisdiction, at least.

It is essential to empower our users, it is essential to do that legally, and it is essential to do that in a way that keeps them also in a legal path.

A possible solution would be a service to let the users pay for patent royalties they want (or need, in a business environment) use.