[amluto]

Do you really want to try to get individual licenses from every single person who worked on video codecs from in the last 20 years so you can legally compress video?

[grishka]

While that would be somewhat harder, I bet most engineers are much less greedy than companies that employ them.

[lolc]

I see you are unfamiliar with the Wright brothers patent war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war