[vorbis] VP3.2 video codec open sourced

[Michael Paine]

Is it ok for a Vorbis codec to use patents if the patent holders allow so?

> On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 09:24:12PM +0200, smoerk wrote:
> > On2 released the VP3.2 video codec as open source. I didn't read the
> > license and could not say if it's really open source.
>
> It's not really open source. You can't use the code to write
> anything but VP3.2-compatible programs, and it looks like it's still
> under quite a few patents.
>
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