On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 5:53 AM Michael Cronenworth <mike(a)cchtml.com> wrote:
On 9/27/22 2:36 PM, David Airlie wrote:
> The implicit IANAL is very clear here.
I wish you had started the discussion the legal list yourself prior to the git commit.
A certain website that monitors this mailing list is probably already preparing to
post how Fedora 37 is no longer going to work with popular video codecs. Once that
post is made the Internet will take that story and bend it a few ways to make us
look bad.
The thing is we've had this ruling in place forever, a lot of people
misunderstood it, I only recently educated myself on the topic.
HW vendors do not pay for patents. The legal list posting above is a
perfect example of why technical people should not play at being
lawyers.
Think of it like a jigsaw puzzle, where the person who places the last
piece in the puzzle pays the license. But then stop thinking of it
like that and just assume it's a lot vaguer and way more legally
involved than that.
Dave.