As I mentioned before, I’m not in a position to provide legal advice. FFmpeg’s stance regarding patents hasn’t changed; it has remained the same for a long time.

I just responded to another message explaining the situation with hybrid plugins. FFmpegKit’s hybrid plugins (Flutter/React Native) are standard plugins that rely on native FFmpegKit binaries. When these binaries are removed from the repositories, projects using hybrid plugins won’t be able to download them. The solution is to build the native FFmpegKit libraries for your platforms locally.

You don’t need to be a React Native expert to build FFmpegKit. You can follow general React Native tutorials for plugins with native dependencies and apply the same approach to FFmpegKit’s React Native plugin. If you run into issues, AI tools are quite helpful these days; I recommend using them.