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by robertlagrant 3 hours ago
That is a very confusing state of affairs!
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Repackaging and selling free data is a very old business model.

In many cases, it's value-added, because the bundler may also do some curation and interpretation.

Not sure that's what's happening, here, though...

You can also buy licenses to use AV1, a royalty-free codec.