This was discussed ad nauseam Upstream mesa removal of AVC/HEVC/VC-1 hardware acceleration (AMD GPUs) - #95 by philm
The gist is: nobody was sued yet, however if the codecs are included, you open up the possibility of a lawsuit at some point.
This was discussed ad nauseam Upstream mesa removal of AVC/HEVC/VC-1 hardware acceleration (AMD GPUs) - #95 by philm
The gist is: nobody was sued yet, however if the codecs are included, you open up the possibility of a lawsuit at some point.