[vorbis] PNG and GIF and JPEG

[rillian]

On Friday, June 29, 2001, at 09:16 , Freya wrote:

> One thing I should point out about JPEG's, much as I
> love them and use them lots for photo's and other fun,
> we should all be aware that they ARE covered by
> patents, it's just that at the moment the people who
> own those patents are being nice and letting people
> have fair use...at the moment...

Are you sure about this? The link you posted is to a JPEG 2000 page, 
which is a very different thing. The story I understood is that portions 
of the jpeg spec are patented, including most of the jpeg 2000 format, 
but that the 'baseline' subset everyone actually uses is completely in 
the clear.

> http://www.jpeg.org/FCD15444-1.htm

  -r

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