diff --git a/PATENTS b/PATENTS index 4414d838..79d17d7d 100644 --- a/PATENTS +++ b/PATENTS @@ -1,22 +1,23 @@ Additional IP Rights Grant (Patents) +------------------------------------ -"This implementation" means the copyrightable works distributed by -Google as part of the WebM Project. +"These implementations" means the copyrightable works that implement the WebM +codecs distributed by Google as part of the WebM Project. -Google hereby grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, -no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) -patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, -transfer, and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of this -implementation of VP8, where such license applies only to those patent -claims, both currently owned by Google and acquired in the future, -licensable by Google that are necessarily infringed by this -implementation of VP8. This grant does not include claims that would be -infringed only as a consequence of further modification of this -implementation. If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute or -order or agree to the institution of patent litigation against any -entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging -that this implementation of VP8 or any code incorporated within this -implementation of VP8 constitutes direct or contributory patent -infringement, or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent -rights granted to you under this License for this implementation of VP8 -shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed. +Google hereby grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, +royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to +make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, transfer, and otherwise +run, modify and propagate the contents of these implementations of WebM, where +such license applies only to those patent claims, both currently owned by +Google and acquired in the future, licensable by Google that are necessarily +infringed by these implementations of WebM. This grant does not include claims +that would be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of these +implementations. 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.