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

[Adam Goode]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 14:44 -0500, Adam Goode wrote:
> 
>> 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.)
> 
> The lawyers are thinking extra-double hard about this (thanks for
> pointing it out).
> When they decide something, I'll let you know.

Glad to be of help. :)

> 
> In the interim, if you wanted to try to resolve the licensing issue with
> Sun, that might not be a bad idea. :)

Here is my old bug report (they basically said they weren't shipping the
code, which is not true, and left it at that):

https://jai-imageio-core.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=162


I also tried contacting some of the jj2000 authors a year ago, and they
basically said that as reference software for ISO, "the code becomes
pretty flexible to use", but didn't know about open source interoperability.


Adam

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