Comment 33 for bug 593477
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| Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote Re: Use VP8/WebM as the default video codec/format | #33 |
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You are assuming that they are no other patents than Google's on VP8. This is an unproven assertion, and some experts have clearly voiced their serious doubts.
The VideoLAN project has an informal policy of not taking software patents into accounts when taking decision for the simple reason that: 1/ they are invalid in Europe, where the project is based, and 2/ there is no way to determine that a certain piece of code does not infringe any patent (you cannot come and ask the patent office for that kind of assertion).
The VideoLAN project is a non-profit and it will not let its policy be dictated by the FSF or Ubuntu zealots. If you have a problem with that, you better take it up with the VideoLAN project directly than through Launchpad.