The practical effect: any Brazilian project building MPEG-4 Part 2 decoders no longer needs a Via LA license for the core Visual portfolio. Combined with the Dolby expiry in January, the whole stack is now free in BR. For the rest of the world most of this was already unencumbered or licensed via different pools, but Brazil was one of the last holdouts.
The practical effect: any Brazilian project building MPEG-4 Part 2 decoders no longer needs a Via LA license for the core Visual portfolio. Combined with the Dolby expiry in January, the whole stack is now free in BR. For the rest of the world most of this was already unencumbered or licensed via different pools, but Brazil was one of the last holdouts.