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by teilo 1349 days ago
It cannot possibly be for technical reasons.

It's almost certainly something to do with this:

https://www.vectis.com/media/vectis-ip-announces-call-for-pa...

Which is complete bullsh*t.

Looks like Fraunhoffer and Dolby intend to go after any commercial product using Opus, and demand fees. They claim this is only for hardware devices … for now. As to software, they only state they do not intend to go after open source software. But since Virtualbox is also commercial software, Oracle is at risk.