On 9/27/22 1:56 PM, David Airlie wrote:
The patent licensing around H264/H265 is such that providing this
could leave Red Hat and other Fedora distributors exposed to legal
problems.

How is Mesa violating H264/H265 patents? Mesa wasn't performing any patented functionality.

If simply handling the bitstream is a violation like you say then glibc/kernel could be patent infringing with an open() call. Let's not get that silly.
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