[Fedora-legal-list] jai-imageio-core license questions

[Adam Goode]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> For two reasons, jj2000 can't go into Fedora:
> 
> 1. The license it is under is non-free (only "JJ2000 Partners" have
> right to use, there is no right to modify, heavy use restrictions based
> on standard compliance).
> 2. JPEG 2000 is heavily patent mined.
> 
> You'd need to strip jj2000 out of the source tarball and ship a "clean"
> tarball to make it okay for Fedora.

Yeah, this is what I thought. Thanks for verifying this.

> Sun is historically really bad at licensing issues like this, although
> recently, they seem to be at least more interested in resolving these
> issues. Unfortunately, the patent issues around JPEG 2000 mean that even
> if this code was under an acceptable license, we still couldn't ship it.

This seems strange to me: if patents are a problem then why does Fedora
ship 2 other JPEG 2000 libraries already? (jasper since FC3, openjpeg
since F7.)



Thanks,

Adam

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