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I absolutely love VideoLAN's stance regarding patents (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[-] pistachio@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 years ago

AFAIK european laws only allow to patent "inventions". Software is considered to be a series of "words" in whatever programming language you're using and, like sentences, it's not an invention and can't be patented.

On the other hand, software-assisted inventions can be patented as a whole.

With that said, software can still be considered a "work" protected by copyright laws.

[-] 520@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And that's fine. VLC does their own implementation of codecs so that's not an issue. It's the patents that make it an issue.

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