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.