Re: [Trisquel-users] Cisco offering a FLOSS H.264 codec

[onpon4]

Sorry, but unless the patents are licensed to everybody, royalty-free, or  
until the patents expire, no free software codec can possibly not violate  
them, and developing a new one just won't help. This new codec is either  
basically proprietary or definitely a patent violation, depending on what you  
download. It's not even legal to obtain that source code if these patents  
exist in your country, so even just checking the source code and trusting  
that the binary is the same would be a patent violation.

There is no solution to software idea patents except abolishing them,  
unfortunately.