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Re:Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder released under GPLv2 by dave1010uk on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @08:38AM (#7143694)
I believe with a BSD licence you could pay royalties for the license and keep distributing under the BSD license. The GPL clause doesn't allow you to do this.
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Re:Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder released under GPLv2 by fosap on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @08:57AM (#7143796)
I'm sure you can do that for GPL software aswell, and i don't see witch part of that clause forbids it.
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Re:Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder released under GPLv2 by belorn on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @09:28AM (#7143964)
The argument seems to be as following:

You can permit redistribution to recipients of a program even if a patent license forbids you to grant that permission. This is the case of BSD.

GPL says that all recipients of a program must be permitted to redistribute. jwr claim that this makes it incompatible with patent licenses.

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