People have moved past vorbis and into the world of Opus. Even MP3 is more for the vast amounts of legacy content - most current content will be AACL.
Saying that, as a no-lawyer, it did seem last time that I looked that many remaining patents after September 2015 were for encoding processes, but as always the actual lawyers who have had a chance to research this would know better and for the rest of us, it isnt too too much of an encumberance. On 15 November 2015 at 16:54, Gerald B. Cox <gb...@bzb.us> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Haïkel <hgue...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > >> Besides, determining when a patent expires is not that easy and Fedora >> Legal is backed by skilled lawyers that said the contrary. Unless Fedora >> Legal confirms your theory (which I doubt), it's useless to discuss this on >> this list. > > > Yeah, this is an issue for Fedora-Legal list, but is interesting > nonetheless. Looked like from the previous email that there were still a > few patents that don't expire until 2017. The first thing that actually > popped into my mind was the argument that was always used about Vorbis, > i.e. "businesses are afraid to use it because of potential infringement > issues" - which I always thought was just a bunch of FUD. That said, if > MP3 patents are expiring what is now the excuse for people not using > Vorbis? It's obviously a better solution and uses less bandwidth for the > same or better quality. > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct >
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