[skybrian]

It's an MIT license. Worrying about who "owns the IP" for an open source project when you could fork any time seems a little much.

[kevin_thibedeau]

MIT license doesn't transfer trademarks and patents.

[todd3834]

I’m not familiar with open sourced code under MIT that is still protected by a patent. Can you share some examples of this?

[zinekeller]

Technically not under MIT, but x264 and x265 are being developed despite the underlying technologies under it have patents.

[DaiPlusPlus]

In practice it means that development work still happens, and, and prebuilt redist binaries still get made, but only in countries that don't recognize software patents.