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Have the patents for H.264 MPEG-4 AVC expired yet? (meta.wikimedia.org)

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If I'm interpreting this correctly, many MP4 patents are going to expire next year. 🎉

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Because patents cause issues for free software. Some examples:

As far as I can tell, vlc is legal only because French law does not recognize software patents, see here.
HDMI 2.1 support in AMDGPU is impossible, see here.
I think Media Foundation is unsupported in Proton because of patents as well, though I'm having trouble finding a reliable source on that.