Hello all, It seems the last patent expires between today and tomorrow.
Thanks for your time, Mateus Rodrigues Costa Em qua., 1 de jul. de 2026 às 17:23, Mateus R. Costa <[email protected]> escreveu: > > Hey all, this a friendly reminder that the last MPEG-4 Visual patent > (from Brazil nonetheless) expires later this month on the 19th > (2026-07-19). > > As far as I have info about this codec it's what powers DivX/Xvid and > Fedora seems to have added official support once the patents that > matter to the U.S. territory have expired. > > Afaik nothing recent does actually uses this codec but you might > potentially have access to some older content in that format. > > For more info: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_MPEG-4_Visual_expired_yet%3F > > Here hoping more patents on other formats expire soon, > Mateus Rodrigues Costa -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
