Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 14:44 -0500, Adam Goode wrote: > >> 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.) > > The lawyers are thinking extra-double hard about this (thanks for > pointing it out). > When they decide something, I'll let you know. Glad to be of help. :) > > In the interim, if you wanted to try to resolve the licensing issue with > Sun, that might not be a bad idea. :) Here is my old bug report (they basically said they weren't shipping the code, which is not true, and left it at that): https://jai-imageio-core.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=162 I also tried contacting some of the jj2000 authors a year ago, and they basically said that as reference software for ISO, "the code becomes pretty flexible to use", but didn't know about open source interoperability. Adam
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