In an article today published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer Eirik Helland Urke reports that the video editor application included with HTC One X have some quite surprising terms of use. The article is mostly based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating:
"Drøy brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat."
I quickly translated it to this English message:
"Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos commercially. Although I can ONLY use them privately."
I've been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I discovered with my Canon IXUS 130. The HTC One X specification specifies that the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for video. AMR is Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec with patents which according to the Wikipedia article require an license agreement with VoiceAge. MP4 is MPEG4 with H.264, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement with MPEG-LA.
I know why I prefer free and open standards also for video.