Will JPEG be removed from FC2? Since Red Hat chose to remove some technologies where company were not actively seeking royalties and litigation (eg: MS/ C# / mono), I assume that there's some "chance" of Red Hat taking action on this: <http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/zd/20040422/tc_zd/125185> << Patent infringement issues surrounding the JPEG image standard resurfaced on Thursday after a small software vendor filed lawsuits against 31 companies ranging from Adobe Systems Inc. and Apple Computer Inc. to IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. [...] The patent, No. 4,689,672, was issued 1987, but Forgent began seeking licenses to it about two years ago. In the middle of 2002 it reached a $16 million licensing deal with Sony, Noonan said. In all, it has reached deals with 30 companies totaling $90 million in licensing revenue. >> Laurent
