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| 2022-09-28 |
Fedora disabling patent-encumbered Mesa codecs |
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A change to the Mesa graphics library has highlighted a potential legal problem for the Fedora distribution. Namely, the Mesa package can enable access to media codec code which is covered by patents in the United States of America. Since Fedora does not have a license for these patents and is backed by the American company Red Hat, the project is looking at disabling support for the patent-encumbered code which, in some instances, will reduce video playback support. As Frantisek Zatloukal wrote: "Since this Mesa change in F37 and rawhide, the Mesa package lost support for vaapi accelerated encoding and decoding of h264, h265 and decoding of vc1. It seems like a big regression from F36 for users with GPUs with open source drivers (mainly AMD, maybe nVidia/other non x86...), that affects common use-cases of Fedora Workstation, like watching videos, in-house game streaming, attending online meetings and many more." The change and discussions around the patent encumbered issue can be found on the Fedora development mailing list. |
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