On 5/22/07, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there a current patent on jpeg? FSF has encouraged people to use jpeg in the past and the wikipedia article mizmo pointed to seems to say that the company that was asserting patent rights has had its patent invalidated and is no longer pursuing any claims. wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Potential_patent_issues Link from the wikipedia article:: http://www.pubpat.org/jpegsurrendered.htm -Toshio
Disclaimer: "I'm not a lawyer. I rather use with paten-free format" http://www.jpeg.org/faq.phtml Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung