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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Looking for advice - ffmpeg-free and wf-recorder
From:       drago01 <drago01 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2022-12-18 14:34:14
Message-ID: CAMqY-FeH_PW5t6WXqqFjNZWkdQdi8R9-S6FZC-vyWt+Rb67K_g () mail ! gmail ! com
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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="mailto:devel@lists.fedoraproject.org">devel@lists.fedoraproject.org</a>&gt; \
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px \
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 18/12/2022 06:18, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:<br> \
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #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 the \
algorithm, not to any API.</div><div><br></div>


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