On 5/22/07, Thomas Chung <tchung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does anybody know if there is any patent issue with jpg? I know gif has patent issue that's why we should use png format. "PNG format is a patent-free compressed format. We hope it will become widely supported; then we will use it. We do have PNG versions of the images on this server. " http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html
Looks like I found the answer myself. "As of October 6, 2006, the U.S. patent's 20-year term appears to have expired, and in November 2006, Forgent agreed to abandon enforcement of patent claims against use of the JPEG standard.[6]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpg Regardless, I think we should *standardize* our static pages with "png" format only. Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung
