Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > For two reasons, jj2000 can't go into Fedora: > > 1. The license it is under is non-free (only "JJ2000 Partners" have > right to use, there is no right to modify, heavy use restrictions based > on standard compliance). > 2. JPEG 2000 is heavily patent mined. > > You'd need to strip jj2000 out of the source tarball and ship a "clean" > tarball to make it okay for Fedora. Yeah, this is what I thought. Thanks for verifying this. > Sun is historically really bad at licensing issues like this, although > recently, they seem to be at least more interested in resolving these > issues. Unfortunately, the patent issues around JPEG 2000 mean that even > if this code was under an acceptable license, we still couldn't ship it. This seems strange to me: if patents are a problem then why does Fedora ship 2 other JPEG 2000 libraries already? (jasper since FC3, openjpeg since F7.) Thanks, Adam
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