&gt; <i>Make this available for free to anyone who doesn’t sue Google, doesn’t object to patents, etc</i><p>&gt; <i>Legally, according to the patent license, I can’t use VP8 (Google)</i><p>OK, let&#x27;s see:<p>&gt; <i>If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute or order or agree to the institution of patent litigation or any other patent enforcement activity against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any of these implementations of WebM or any code incorporated within any of these implementations of WebM constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted to you under this License for these implementations of WebM shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.[1]</i><p>Seems upfront to me, and nothing to do with if you sue Google over matters unrelated to VP8, believe software patents are invalid, etc etc.<p>It&#x27;s just a modified Apache 2.0 patent license grant, so unless you object to all projects under that...?<p>&gt; <i>If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.[2]</i><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.webmproject.org&#x2F;license&#x2F;additional&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.webmproject.org&#x2F;license&#x2F;additional&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apache.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;LICENSE-2.0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apache.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;LICENSE-2.0</a>