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		ubercow13 on April 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 AV1 is patented heavily too, it's just that a group of companies that believe they own all the relevant patents offer a royalty-free patent license for the codec

kibwen on April 21, 2020 [–]

Which (AFAIK) is still a huge blessing for OSS users; IANAL but its patent situation seems to as benign as that of the (extremely popular) Apache License.

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