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Originally Posted by Silock
But that's not proprietary, at least not by the actual definition of proprietary.
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It is prorietary by both the software sense of the definition and the "actual" definition...
Actual definition
1. belonging to a proprietor. (it belongs to MPEG-LA, they license it out)
Software definition from wikipedia
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A literal meaning of "proprietary" in relation to software is that it has a copyright owner who can exercise control over what users can do with the software, in contrast to public domain. However, the term is commonly used in a narrower sense to describe software with restrictions on use or private modification, or with restrictions judged to be excessive on copying or publishing of modified or unmodified versions.[1] These restrictions are placed on it by one of its proprietors. In this sense it is also known as "non-free software" and is the opposite of free software, generally speaking.[2][3][4]
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