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		mbq on Oct 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video ... As I understand, Google can go evil and use its patents to impose certain restrictions, like killing potential independent VP10 project or messing with webm's royalty-free status.

gillianseed on Oct 22, 2013 | [–]

Since Google are offering them under a _irrevocable_ royalty free licence I don't see how you could have come to 'understand' it that way.

Do you have any references to your claims?

cromwellian on Oct 22, 2013 | [–]

Citation?

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