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> why would they stand to lose their patent license for WebM?

From http://www.webmproject.org/license/additional/ and http://www.webmproject.org/license/bitstream/

> If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute or order or agree to the institution of patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that this implementation of VP8 or any code incorporated within this implementation of VP8 constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted to you under this License for this implementation of VP8 shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.



Right. That explains that then, thx :)

And somehow all these corporations (Samsung, Broadcom, etc) believe they have a claim to these patents? But it can at best be only one of them, right?




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