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

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Marcus Johnson <bumblebritches57 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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

You never ship it in a completed form (i.e a binary) so you are not at
risk. If there's a spec there's nothing illegal about implementing an
public specification. IANAL