vlc 0.8.6 - putvlc.h non-free

In vlc-0.8.6/modules/stream_out/transrate/putvlc.h is written:

/* Copyright (C) 1996, MPEG Software Simulation Group. All Rights
Reserved. */

*...
*Commercial implementations of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, including *shareware,
*are subject to royalty fees to patent holders. Many of *these patents are
*general enough such that they are unavoidable regardless of *implementation
* design.
*
*/

-> http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/extras/v/vlc/vlc_0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1.orig.tar.gz

-> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542108

-> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2009-08/msg00123.html