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		nullc on Sept 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s Opus, it rocks and now it’s an audio codec st... Come on, it's only 45kloc. Do you go around insisting every non-trivial piece of software on hacker news is encumbered? And in most those cases people were not making a special effort to avoid being effectively encumbered, while Opus was.

throwaway64 on Sept 12, 2012 [–]

if its a non-trivial peice of software, it almost certainly is encumbered, don't forget about idiotic patents like 1 click, there are likely millions.

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