One of them has a lot of money to be sued for patent infringement. There’s no money to extract from a random guy releasing free stuff on GitHub.
It’s not worth going after individuals, and I’m sure codec companies secretly loves it when their format is super popular by end users even if unlicensed (MP3, MPEG 4, HEVC), because more companies want to implement it and those have to pony up the big bucks. If they started going after end users, open formats would very quickly rise and dominate, they don’t want that.
One of them has a lot of money to be sued for patent infringement. There’s no money to extract from a random guy releasing free stuff on GitHub.
It’s not worth going after individuals, and I’m sure codec companies secretly loves it when their format is super popular by end users even if unlicensed (MP3, MPEG 4, HEVC), because more companies want to implement it and those have to pony up the big bucks. If they started going after end users, open formats would very quickly rise and dominate, they don’t want that.