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Re:Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video by derf_ on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @02:31PM (#10161123)
We ran the Opus license terms by the FSF before publishing them, and they confirmed that the terms were compatible with the GPL (v3 or otherwise).
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Re:Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video by dogma1138 on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @06:50PM (#10162437)
Wasn't there an issue with a couple of companies filing IPR's with royalties that cover parts of Opus?
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Re:Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video by derf_ on Friday September 04, 2015 @03:50PM (#10172531)
Please see the "Other disclosures" section on https://www.opus-codec.org/license/

You may also be interested in https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/02/defending-opus/ (warning: contains discussion of specific, unexpired patents).

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