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by rowanG077 319 days ago
Software patents aren't an issue in most of the world. Codecs however are used all over the world. No one is going to use a codec that is illegal to use in the US and EU.
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astrange 319 days ago
EU would be one of the places that doesn't have software patents, which is why VLC is based there.
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rowanG077 319 days ago
It's not that simple. Software patents exists in the EU, the requirements are much more strict though. For example Netflix was ordered to cease their use of H265 in germany: https://www.nexttv.com/news/achtung-baby-netflix-loses-paten...
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