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I absolutely love VideoLAN's stance regarding patents (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Programs are mathematical proofs. If maths cannot be patented, software can't be, either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can hear a more detailed explanation on VLC's stance from the man himself (JB Kempf) in the FOSS pod S1E11 episode around 22:10.

Basically:

Not that many threats become lawsuits
Patent trolling is countered with publicly accessible prior art
Having no money is also a good deterrent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the heads up about FOSS pod. Had not heard of it before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is all well and good, and where’s the Traffic Cone!?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Under Santa's hat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Asking the real questions here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Can someone elaborate?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

French laws don't recognize software patents so videolan doesn't either. This is likely a reference to vlc supporting h265 playback without verifying a license. These days most opensource software pretends that the h265 patents and licensing fees don't exist for convenience. I believe libavcodec is distributed with support enabled by default.

Nearly every device with hardware accelerated h265 support has already had the license paid for, so there's not much point in enforcing it. Only large companies like Microsoft and Red Hat bother.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They bother because they are US based and can be hounded by the patent ~~trolls~~ holders

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They don't recognize or value software patents because they aren't recognized by the government where the project is run from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Vive la France!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seeing the last law on immigration :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

We got fucked real bad but we are coming for our rulers and will take down their previous work