I don't mind that jpg is dropped. png and svg are the way to go :) I know gimp did not include gif for patent reasons so I wonder what they are going to do now about jpeg. btw is there work being done on a png successor like jpeg 2000 is for jpg? lupusBE (Kristof Vansant Belgium) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pedro Fernandes Macedo" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora Core" <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 4:42 AM Subject: Re: JPEG patent, removal from FC2? > Laurent GUERBY wrote: > > >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> > > > > > Laurent, > I believe that this subject is very delicate... This patent is due soon > and that's why I believe they're going after everyone who is using the > patented work, to make money while they can. So far , the other > technologies removed from fedora have patents that will last for a long > time (like mp3) , so this is a new situation that probably will be > taken care by the legal folks at redhat.. > My opinion is that we should be aware. Removing JPEG support is a huge > task (as many applications use this feature) and probably it would take > a huge time to remove it now and then to add it back later when the > patent expires.. So , this has to be studied before removing support... > > -- > Pedro Macedo > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list >
