jpg vs png

[Thomas Chung]

On 5/22/07, Thomas Chung <tchung at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Does anybody know if there is any patent issue with jpg?
> I know gif has patent issue that's why we should use png format.
>
> "PNG format is a patent-free compressed format. We hope it will become
> widely supported; then we will use it. We do have PNG versions of the
> images on this server. "
>
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

Looks like I found the answer myself.

"As of October 6, 2006, the U.S. patent's 20-year term appears to have
expired, and in November 2006, Forgent agreed to abandon enforcement
of patent claims against use of the JPEG standard.[6]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpg

Regardless, I think we should *standardize* our static pages with
"png" format only.
Regards,
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung