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AYBABTME
9 months ago
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Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems
Aren't there patent problems with fountain codes?
jcalvinowens
9 months ago
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Luby's original paper was published in 2002. Not sure about RaptorQ though...
Sanzig
9 months ago
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IIRC, Qualcomm still holds patents on RaptorQ. They do provide a blanket license exemption for implementing RFC6330.
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