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		joe_the_user on Oct 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apa... Open source, sure. But patent free? Comment here indicates no: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3166268 If AAC costs $1/device to implement, who exactly cares that the code is "opened"?

ootachi on Oct 28, 2011 [–]

Two mistakes here:

(1) Apple Lossless, not AAC. Apple is not open-sourcing their AAC decoder, which is part of QuickTime.

(2) The Apache license grants a royalty-free patent license.

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