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If Google gets the patent, great, you can argue the patent system is crap, but at least *they* got the patent and then *everyone* can use it royalty-free. If Google doesn't get the patent then great. If Google doesn't *try* to get the patent and someone else does we're *fucked*.
This is the Alliance for Open Media's patent license, of which Google is a founding member, and which they're *obviously* going to license this patent under. Go on, read it, it's a lot shorter and simpler than the GPL. https://aomedia.org/license/patent-license/ …
Software patents are evil, but we're *stuck* with them, and as long as we are, I damn well hope Google patents as much video compression stuff as they possibly can, for the sake of open, royalty-free, advanced video compression algorithms. H.264/265 and their licensors can DIAF.
most notably the "Defensive Termination" clause, which means that if they tried to go back on their word and sue anybody over anything in AV1, they'd lose their license to everybody else's patents on it
so we don't have to take their word for it, they're _bound_ never to litigate over AV1 patents, as is everybody else who uses it
ANS didn't make it into the final AV1 spec, so it's not *required* that Google license that patent (but I hope they do, and it's good to ask for it). And yeah, even Xiph has defensive patents. See also Monty's blog post a year ago when this came up: https://xiphmont.dreamwidth.org/84214.html
Basically, a lot of legalese to say "use it for whatever UNLESS you sue us back". Better having the patent parked by a relatively trustworthy partner than poached by the H264 consortium.
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