27 Sep
2022
27 Sep
'22
2:44 p.m.
On Wed, 28 Sep 2022 05:36:01 +1000 David Airlie airlied@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 5:34 AM Michael Cronenworth mike@cchtml.com wrote:
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.
The implicit IANAL is very clear here.
the topic has already been opened on the legal list in https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/...
Dan