From fedora-devel-list  Sun Dec 18 14:34:14 2022
From: drago01 <drago01 () gmail ! com>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 14:34:14 +0000
To: fedora-devel-list
Subject: Re: Looking for advice - ffmpeg-free and wf-recorder
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On Sunday, December 18, 2022, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <
devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On 18/12/2022 06:18, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
>
>> Could Fedora ship a shim library that exposed the same API and used
>> dlopen() internally?
>>
>
> I doubt. Lawyers will treat this as a patents violation.
>
>
Why would they? The patents apply to the algorithm, not to any API.

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<br><br>On Sunday, December 18, 2022, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel &lt;<a href=
=3D"mailto:devel@lists.fedoraproject.org">devel@lists.fedoraproject.org</a>=
&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex=
;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 18/12/2022 06:18, Demi Mar=
ie Obenour wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Could Fedora ship a shim library that exposed the same API and used<br>
dlopen() internally?<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
I doubt. Lawyers will treat this as a patents violation.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why would they? The patents apply to t=
he algorithm, not to any API.</div><div><br></div>

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