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Google makes money off ffmpeg in general but not this part of the code. They're not getting someone else to write a patch that helps them make money, because google will just disable this codec if it wasn't already disabled in their builds.

Also in general Google does investigate software they don't make money off.





> Also in general Google does investigate software they don't make money off.

An organization of this size might actually have trouble making sure they really don't use code from that project. Or won't do so in the future.




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