Bad news for WebM and FLOSS

name at domain wrote ..
> Lets be patient, this is only draft.

Exactly, and beware the FUD. What's being discussed here are patents,
which is a different issue from copyright. The way copyright restricts
you, via copyright law and the software license, is completely
different from the way patents restrict you via patent law.

So this doesn't affect the software license in any way. libvpx has
been -- and will continue -- to be free software.

Even if people don't get any benefit at all from this patent
cross-licensing deal (which seems unlikely), so what? There are many
free software programs out there like that already so this is nothing
new. The patent system is so broken today that everyone is *already*
at risk of someone walking up to them and pointing a patent gun at
their head. That's nothing new. At least Google's trying to help, at
least to the extent that it's possible in the broken patent system.

The *real* problem is that software is considered to be eligible for
patents. The focus should be on that problem: Eliminating software
from the list of patent-eligible things. That's one of the FSF's
campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/