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skybrian
on Feb 19, 2023
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Google is no longer sponsoring Fastlane
It's an MIT license. Worrying about who "owns the IP" for an open source project when you could fork any time seems a little much.
kevin_thibedeau
on Feb 19, 2023
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MIT license doesn't transfer trademarks and patents.
todd3834
on Feb 20, 2023
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I’m not familiar with open sourced code under MIT that is still protected by a patent. Can you share some examples of this?
zinekeller
on Feb 20, 2023
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Technically not under MIT, but x264 and x265 are being developed despite the underlying technologies under it have patents.
DaiPlusPlus
on Feb 20, 2023
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In practice it means that development work still happens, and, and prebuilt redist binaries still get made, but only in countries that don't recognize software patents.
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