Dear Legal Gurus, There is a "semi-official" patch set for the IJG jpeg code: ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/ljpeg-6b.tar.gz which adds support for lossless jpeg files.
The archive contains three files: ljpeg-6b.patch and two copies of a test image, in both lossless jpeg and ppm format. There is no Copyright, README, or similar file with a license in. The patch file does, however, make some changes to the README file in the jpeg-6b source tree, but these are not concerned with the License portion of that file. The implication, as I see it, is that the software is released under the same license as the main IJG code, but is that a legally safe assumption? Can we assume that the patch is released under the same license as the main ILG code? I'm quite new to the debian community. I have read the policy manual and others. I also had a quick scan through the debian-legal archives. I didn't find an answer, but will happily be corrected by an appropriate reference. Regards. -- Steve King
