On 9/27/22 1:56 PM, David Airlie wrote:
The patent licensing around H264/H265 is such that providing this
could leave Red Hat and other Fedora distributors exposed to legal
problems.
How is Mesa violating H264/H265 patents? Mesa wasn't performing any patented
functionality.
If simply handling the bitstream is a violation like you say then glibc/kernel could
be patent infringing with an open() call. Let's not get that silly.