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I'm pretty sure he meant patent free open standards or freely licensed patents open standards.



And MPEG-4 Systems (the file format) is a patent-free open standard!


Is it? I thought it was just not actively monetized via licence and left as a gray area, like so many other things related to royalty-bearing codecs.

A quick Google gives me this:

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/M4S/Pages/Intro.aspx




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