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by jonsneyers
1192 days ago
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Defensive license termination is actually a good thing. It is how you can keep a codec royalty-free. Without defensive termination, it is way too easy in the current patent system for patent trolls to make bogus claims and bully companies into paying them royalties. JPEG XL also has defensive termination clauses, and so do the Apache 2.0 and GPL v3 FOSS licenses. AOM has noble goals: royalty-free codecs for the web. JXL is also a royalty-free codec that is very well suited for the web (as well as many other use cases for still images). There is no reason why we can't just have both supported by browsers. |
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