Re:Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs
by Scaevolus on Monday March 12, 2012 @01:20PM
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They won't all expire until around the end of 2017, according to this: http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/
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Re:Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs
by magicalist on Monday March 12, 2012 @02:50PM
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wait, did the grandparent originally say something about MP3?
h264's last patent will expire in november 2027 (or september 2028, but I think there's some technicality that makes that one not count) according to http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/MPEG_patent_lists#H.264_pat...
That's a really long time from now.