On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:56 PM Leigh Scott <leigh123linux(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/18 5:20 AM, Leigh Scott wrote:
>
> Thanks Leigh. I see those have already made progress in code review.
+1000
>
> Is there a definitive reason why those are necessary to go in RPM
fusion? Was
> Tom Hughes right?
>
> Dusty
This sums up the situation
http://gnome-apps.13852.n7.nabble.com/High-Efficiency-Image-File-Format-H...
IANAL, and I know basically nothing about codec patents, but it might be
worth noting that there are a whole bunch of video coding techniques that
are presumably completely unnecessary for decoding video *stills*, i.e.
I-frames. Things like motion compensation are irrelevant if there's no
motion.
So it's at least slightly plausible that any patents in question wouldn't
apply to a heavily stripped down decoder that only implemented the parts of
the spec needed to decode HEIF.