Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "High Efficiency Image File Format" in Vietnamese language version.
If there’s one major downside to both HEVC and HEIF, it’s that they’re covered by patents that may need to be licensed for use in various apps and services.
HEIF and HEVC are extensively covered by patents, which means there could be legal implications to implementing HEIF support, particularly in paid software or a hardware product.