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Re:Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Supp... by hedora on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @06:26PM (#33014040)
> Fedora cannot ship anything that causes the OS to provide an API which exposes patent algorithms.

If this is really the case, I have some bad news: They'll need to stop shipping drivers for anything under ~ 17 years old.

Pretty much all peripherals implement patented encodings and decodings.

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Re:Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Supp... by bubblethink on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @03:29PM (#33012149)
Does anyone know when h.264 patents expire ? Was is 2027 ? Fedora is pretty unusable without rpmfusion. All this will also likely move to rpmfusion.
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Re:Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Supp... by semiotic1 on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @05:01PM (#33013201)
There was a statement [1] earlier from leigh123linux [2] announcing very little interest in maintaining something like this.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...

[2] https://admin.rpmfusion.org/pkgdb/packager/leigh123linux/

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