LWN.net – Patent clouds for the Opus codec

The Opus codec is an audio codec that
was designed from the beginning to avoid existing patents in the field and
be royalty-free for all users. It was standardized by the IETF in 2012 as
RFC 6716.
Now a company called Vectis (“a premier
full-suite IP licensing and consultancy boutique“) is collecting
patents that are claimed to read on Opus as a way of demanding
royalties on its use. “The planned Opus program will focus on hardware devices and will not be
directed towards open-source software, applications, services, or
content“. (Thanks to Paul Wise).

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