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A 25-year-old Brazilian video patent just expired, ending a lingering legal headache for Linux (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] phailhaus@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

As a general rule, somebody is going to patent every aspect of these formats. They haven't been demanding licensing fees from open projects, so they aren't being baddies. The fact that they could kept a lot of projects from including direct support.