Fluendo Walks the Line Between Free and Proprietary Codecs

"Talking about this mixture of licenses, Moscardini says, "Fluendo has worked hard to be able to convince the patent holders to give the rights to distribute the codecs for an entire operating system legally. It was one of the challenges to be able to make legal multimedia on open source solutions a reality.""

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