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You could say the same about HEVC
Oh, I wasn't aware, can you tell me in what way, for AOM it's about patenting parts of the codec that have been developed by its participants, what about them?
HEVC is also a patended codec. Also it's proprietary too and they're even more closed than AV1
But does it have the same virality of AV1 is what I'm asking?
AV1 implementations are open source, but you might have your licence revoked by AOM making it effectively a timed bomb, since it could happen at any moment, in the worst case when AV1 is everywhere. Also it makes building on top of it a legal risk because AOM still holds the patents, I say risk because you may live in a country that doesn't give a crap about software patents, so you would be safe to a certain extent