HI I read a company have manger get new patent of jpg and demaning roytes for every using jpg in usa. Sony and Mircrosoft have been force paying for it using jpg decompress in there productis in USA.
I am ageint using jpg or libjpg in the core for it can be a patent issue problem.
And it should be put into a vote. and not importet at all to reactos.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Casper Hornstrup" ch@csh-consult.dk To: "'ReactOS Development List'" ros-dev@reactos.org Sent: den 30 December 2005 12:59 Subject: RE: [ros-dev] libjpeg
Well, it says the patent will expire in 2006.
Casper
-----Original Message----- From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org]
On Behalf Of Maarten Bosma
Sent: 30. december 2005 12:46 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] libjpeg
Casper Hornstrup wrote:
No problem here. JPEG is complex and I doubt we can find a significant
smaller implementation.
Which parts are patented and in which countries? Can you disable the
parts that is
covered by patents by default like we do with freetype?
Casper
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