Is the HEIC support considered safe from a patent perspective? #646
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I'm not a lawyer and can't justify paying one to answer this question definitely. The library is offered without any warranty, as specified in the license, so you have to make your own decision here. My understanding is that it's the HEVC video codec that's covered by patents, not the container format (which is the standard ISO 14496, aka ISO base media file format, used for MP4 and others), nor the metadata format (which isn't anything specific to HEIC or HEVC). |
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I'm not a lawyer and can't justify paying one to answer this question definitely. The library is offered without any warranty, as specified in the license, so you have to make your own decision here.
My understanding is that it's the HEVC video codec that's covered by patents, not the container format (which is the standard ISO 14496, aka ISO base media file format, used for MP4 and others), nor the metadata format (which isn't anything specific to HEIC or HEVC).