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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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