Patents question about BPG Image format

[Pavel Alexeev]

Hello.

I found very interesting BPG image format - http://bellard.org/bpg/

Under licensing chapter on offsite stated:

  * The BPG decoding library uses a modified version of FFmpeg released
    under the LGPL version 2.1 as HEVC decoder. The BPG decoding library
    excluding the FFmpeg code is released under the BSD license.
  * The BPG encoder as a whole is released under the GPL version 2
    license. The BPG encoder sources excluding x265 are released under
    the BSD license. Thex265
    <https://www.videolan.org/developers/x265.html>library is released
    under the GPL version 2 license. The optionalJCTVC HEVC reference
    encoder <https://hevc.hhi.fraunhofer.de/>is released under the BSD
    license.
  * Some of the HEVC algorithms may be protected by patents in some
    countries (read theFFmpeg Patent Mini-FAQ
    <https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html>for more information). Most
    devices already include or will include hardware HEVC support, so we
    suggest to use it if patents are an issue.

Licenses free.
Licensecheck also show mix of BSD, MIT and LGPL code.

But what with codec patents? Is it acceptable in Fedora?


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