Is it considered safe from a patent perspective? #15
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HEIC is widely recognized to be heavily encumbered by patents. Is it safe to incorporate it into a closed-source commercial application, or are licenses required for utilizing this library to decode iPhone HEIC files? From my observation, it appears to pose significant challenges. |
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In general I may carefully say yes, because you are not integrating a static code but you're about to use a dynamic library that considered open source |
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Thank you for your quick response. I am not concerned about LGPL - I know how to handle that. My focus is on the HEIC patents. I wonder even if it’s legal for GIMP to have HEIC support. I just asked the same question on the libheif project to gather more input and views. |
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In general I may carefully say yes, because you are not integrating a static code but you're about to use a dynamic library that considered open source
backend. It should works this way with LGPL 3.0 and many others. One thing is I'm not really sure thatx265encoder which licensed with GPL 2.0 allow this meaning. Recentlylibheifreleased supported of open-sourced and free licensed libkvazaar and one time I decided that I'll change x265 to libkvazaar but I didn't