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Has Google donated the patents they hold encompassing WebM to the public domain?


No, but the WebM license includes a perpetual, royalty-free patent license: http://www.webmproject.org/license/additional/

The patent license is irrevocable unless you file a suit against VP8 users claiming that VP8 violates your own patents. (This is a common clause for open-source patent grants; basically it means that Google can still use its patents "defensively" as a deterrent against other patent suits, but it can't use them in an "offensive" first-strike.)




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