Thomas Chung 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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Potential_patent_issues
US Patent Office found the patent invalid based on prior art a year ago,
and it already expired anyway.
That gnu.org page on gif is pretty old. The GIF patents expired a few
years ago IIRC.
It seems reasonable to support PNG anyway as its a standard format, so
let's see how small gimp will let me squeeze them down in PNG format.
~m
