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Nobody has lost because the fight has moved on.

VP8 being a safer choice isn't reassuring, since it isn't much of a choice anymore.

Welcome the new fight, VP9 vs. H.265 vs. Daala.

This agreement covers VP9 as well.

Only to the extent that it uses the same techniques as VP8. Anything new (read: anything which might infringe on H.265 related patents) is still subject to threats from MPEG-LA.

Yes, but this applies to any and all software - including H.26{5,6,7,8,9}.

Sadly.

In his response to this MPEG-LA news Xiphmont (in response to a troll comment) claims Xiph are contributing to VP9, including writing the spec, so it may well be that VP9 aka VP.next is merging with Daala and the IETF Internet Video Codec project. It makes sense to me as Google and the IETF both provide some level of defence against all this patent BS, which would be pragmatic for Xiph to take advantage of.

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