Why don’t you take over the responsibility for the project? And be fully accountable for a possible copyright or patent infringement? It is presumptuous to demand something from others that you are not willing to contribute yourself.
> Am 29.01.2021 um 20:11 schrieb Top Rock Photography > <[email protected]>: > > > My only concern is that, although AVIF is not patent encumbered, he refused > to add the reading/writing of metadata data to AVIF, until he speaks to a > lawyer. That has been quite a long time ago and so, my AVIF files made by > darktable seem to have no metadata. > > Currently, Exiftool is no better (in that regard). Worse yet, aside from the > most popular browsers, (Firefox, Chrome/Chromium), I cannot find a viewer for > AVIF files. > > Does one really need a lawyer to work for over one year to decide that the > reading/writing of metadata in an AVIF does NOT violate any patents not > covered by the open license? Is his lawyer billing him at US$20,000 per day? > > I am confident that the exiv2 project will be taken over. I just hope that > whoever takes it over has a lawyer who knows how to make phone calls and/or > write letters. > > I have other issues on AVIF support, but this is not the thread for that. > > Sincerely, > > Karim Hosein > Top Rock Photography > 754.999.1652 > > > >> >> >> a: How will this affect DT? >> b: Supplementary question: Would exiftool be an alternative for DT? >> > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > = ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
