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Alliance for Open Media Video Codec reference implementation (Mozilla branch)
http://aomedia.org/
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Patent troll warning #9

Open ghost opened 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but ive recently seen this link

https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-News/Sisvel-Launches-Patent-Pools-for-VP9-and-AV1-130840.aspx

where company Sisvel is purported to be charging for license to AV1 product

this is concerning because it appears to be in direct contradiction of this statement:

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1

can someone please clarify - or point me to where a clarification could be found?

luctrudeau commented 5 years ago

Greetings @cup

This repo is an old fork of AOM to test out AV1 integration in Firefox. I don't think this repo is maintained anymore. The official AV1 repository can be found at https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/+/master

I'm not part of the alliance so I can't clarify anything, but I would point you to the alliance website https://aomedia.org/the-alliance-for-open-media-statement/