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A 25-year-old Brazilian video patent just expired, ending a lingering legal headache for Linux (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 5 days ago by monica_b1998@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

It has never been a “legal headache”, more of a bit of additional work for distro maintainers (to keep codecs separate from the rest of the distro) and a tiny inconvenience for users (they had to click an additional button after installing the distro).

Was that ever? Whenever someone whined about codecs back in the day, I would just install mpv or vlc (which were and are in most official distro repos I know of) and call it a day.