RHEL 10 announced that RDP would be the preferred alternative to VNC. Red Hat replaced Spice with VNC in Red Hat 8 due to licensing issues with h.246. VNC is under featured and basic compared to both alternatives. Spice uses proprietary h.246 which caused disputes with licenses. RDP is proprietary to microsoft but has a few foss implementations.
Reading up on RDP as it’s something I do not utilize, I wondered just how encumbered RDP is compared to Spice and VNC. Wonder how third-party server and clients are handling the patent-encumbered protocol.
Do third parties implement an older standard of the RDP protocol that isn’t as encumbered?
Wikipedia says “As of February 2014, the extent to which open-source clients meet this requirement remains unknown.”
That’s old but may still be the case. However, I’d imagine if RHEL wanted to comply with mpeg’s h246 patents, they will do the same for rdp.