| Alliance for Open Media Patent License 1.0 |
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| 1. License Terms. |
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| 1.1. Patent License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each |
| Licensor, on behalf of itself and successors in interest and assigns, |
| grants Licensee a non-sublicensable, perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, |
| no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as expressly stated in this |
| License) patent license to its Necessary Claims to make, use, sell, offer |
| for sale, import or distribute any Implementation. |
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| 1.2. Conditions. |
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| 1.2.1. Availability. As a condition to the grant of rights to Licensee to make, |
| sell, offer for sale, import or distribute an Implementation under |
| Section 1.1, Licensee must make its Necessary Claims available under |
| this License, and must reproduce this License with any Implementation |
| as follows: |
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| a. For distribution in source code, by including this License in the |
| root directory of the source code with its Implementation. |
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| b. For distribution in any other form (including binary, object form, |
| and/or hardware description code (e.g., HDL, RTL, Gate Level Netlist, |
| GDSII, etc.)), by including this License in the documentation, legal |
| notices, and/or other written materials provided with the |
| Implementation. |
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| 1.2.2. Additional Conditions. This license is directly from Licensor to |
| Licensee. Licensee acknowledges as a condition of benefiting from it |
| that no rights from Licensor are received from suppliers, distributors, |
| or otherwise in connection with this License. |
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| 1.3. Defensive Termination. If any Licensee, its Affiliates, or its agents |
| initiates patent litigation or files, maintains, or voluntarily |
| participates in a lawsuit against another entity or any person asserting |
| that any Implementation infringes Necessary Claims, any patent licenses |
| granted under this License directly to the Licensee are immediately |
| terminated as of the date of the initiation of action unless 1) that suit |
| was in response to a corresponding suit regarding an Implementation first |
| brought against an initiating entity, or 2) that suit was brought to |
| enforce the terms of this License (including intervention in a third-party |
| action by a Licensee). |
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| 1.4. Disclaimers. The Reference Implementation and Specification are provided |
| "AS IS" and without warranty. The entire risk as to implementing or |
| otherwise using the Reference Implementation or Specification is assumed |
| by the implementer and user. Licensor expressly disclaims any warranties |
| (express, implied, or otherwise), including implied warranties of |
| merchantability, non-infringement, fitness for a particular purpose, or |
| title, related to the material. IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR BE LIABLE TO |
| ANY OTHER PARTY FOR LOST PROFITS OR ANY FORM OF INDIRECT, SPECIAL, |
| INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER FROM ANY CAUSES OF |
| ACTION OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO THIS LICENSE, WHETHER BASED ON BREACH |
| OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR |
| NOT THE OTHER PARTRY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. |
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| 2. Definitions. |
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| 2.1. Affiliate. "Affiliate" means an entity that directly or indirectly |
| Controls, is Controlled by, or is under common Control of that party. |
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| 2.2. Control. "Control" means direct or indirect control of more than 50% of |
| the voting power to elect directors of that corporation, or for any other |
| entity, the power to direct management of such entity. |
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| 2.3. Decoder. "Decoder" means any decoder that conforms fully with all |
| non-optional portions of the Specification. |
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| 2.4. Encoder. "Encoder" means any encoder that produces a bitstream that can |
| be decoded by a Decoder only to the extent it produces such a bitstream. |
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| 2.5. Final Deliverable. "Final Deliverable" means the final version of a |
| deliverable approved by the Alliance for Open Media as a Final |
| Deliverable. |
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| 2.6. Implementation. "Implementation" means any implementation, including the |
| Reference Implementation, that is an Encoder and/or a Decoder. An |
| Implementation also includes components of an Implementation only to the |
| extent they are used as part of an Implementation. |
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| 2.7. License. "License" means this license. |
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| 2.8. Licensee. "Licensee" means any person or entity who exercises patent |
| rights granted under this License. |
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| 2.9. Licensor. "Licensor" means (i) any Licensee that makes, sells, offers |
| for sale, imports or distributes any Implementation, or (ii) a person |
| or entity that has a licensing obligation to the Implementation as a |
| result of its membership and/or participation in the Alliance for Open |
| Media working group that developed the Specification. |
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| 2.10. Necessary Claims. "Necessary Claims" means all claims of patents or |
| patent applications, (a) that currently or at any time in the future, |
| are owned or controlled by the Licensor, and (b) (i) would be an |
| Essential Claim as defined by the W3C Policy as of February 5, 2004 |
| (https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-essential) |
| as if the Specification was a W3C Recommendation; or (ii) are infringed |
| by the Reference Implementation. |
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| 2.11. Reference Implementation. "Reference Implementation" means an Encoder |
| and/or Decoder released by the Alliance for Open Media as a Final |
| Deliverable. |
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| 2.12. Specification. "Specification" means the specification designated by |
| the Alliance for Open Media as a Final Deliverable for which this |
| License was issued. |