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

[Timothy Gu]

On Jul 25, 2013 12:02 PM, "Marcus Johnson" <bumblebritches57 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I mean, I'm not trying to make money off it, I was going to give it to
> FFmpeg when It was done anyway, I just don't want to get in trouble for
> creating the code.

Note that there are already a lot of decoder for some "heavily patented"
codecs like MP3, H.264, and AAC, and no one got in trouble because of that
(yet) AFAIK.

Short answer: There is a 99% chance that you won't.

Timothy