Ogg or H.264

Posted Jul 26, 2009 14:44 UTC (Sun) by jrincayc (guest, #29129)
In reply to: Ogg or H.264 by tzafrir
Parent article: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

gmaxwell specified 10 years from now, or 2019, in which case many of MPEG-LA's H.264 patents will not have expired yet since the last US patents expire in 2028.

US MPEG-LA patent list:
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-...
based on
http://www.mpegla.com/avc/avc-patentlist.cfm

I think there is some possible justification for software patents (assuming that some way of distinguishing good patents can be found) but I have never seen a good justification for why software patents should last 20 years from filing date.