[FFmpeg-devel] Legality of writing decoder for patented codec in the US?

Claudio Freire klaussfreire at gmail.com
Thu Jul 25 20:39:45 CEST 2013


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:10 PM, compn <tempn at twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:47:30 -0400, Marcus Johnson wrote:
>>I'm wondering how illegal it would be to write a decoder for a heavily
>>patented audio codec in America, and in which ways I could mitigate my risk
>
> ways to mitigate risk:
> release the code anonymously

Ehm... I don't think that's good advise.


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