Re: [Gimp-developer] The issue of JPEG Patents?
Hi, Joao S. O. Bueno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some Linux distributions, as well as popular windows binary packages come out without the GIF plug-in. It is usually downloadable as a separate plug-in with a note for the patent issues. This can be a major PITA sometimes (you need to do GIF, and just find out the live Linux CD with GIMP on it is lacking the gif plug-in for example) Sure, but we can't do anything about that. We even added the possibility to compile the GIF plug-in w/o support for LZW compression. This allows packagers to include a GIF plug-in that doesn't have any potential patent problems. We will also not remove the JPEG plug-in from the GIMP tarball. If packagers decide to not include it in their binary packages for whatever reason, that's the problem of the packagers (and their customers) then. Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] The issue of JPEG Patents?
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Daniel Rogers wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:47:49 -0700 From: Daniel Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joao S. O. Bueno [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] The issue of JPEG Patents? Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: On Friday 23 April 2004 18:39, Alan Horkan wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/23/forgent_jpeg_suit/ Has the issue of Jpeg Patents been brought up yet? (a quick but not thorough search suggests not) hmmm...What about waiting until october, and THEM start the Gimp Foundation? You can't sue what does not exist Honestly...I got scared for the GIMP when I read about the thou shalt not open scanned-up money images blurbs ... when I read about this JPEG patents, I did not even thought about the GIMP, because it's just too stupid. But..who knows where human greed can take us? Well you could still sue the plugin maintainer. but that is no point. It is greed drivin, thus there is a second, implict rule, thou shall not sue that which has no money. I was thinking that Jpeg support might have to be preemptively removed like Gif support was removed. (Although the Gif patents have expired in America and will expire in Europe in June) On reading more, some comments suggest that this issue might not be specific enough to effect the Gimp but then I always believed Gif could have been included in the Gimp if parts of the Gif compression had been disabled but these issues are always more complicated than they seem. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=105099cid=8948562 - Alan ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] The issue of JPEG Patents?
Hi, Alan Horkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was thinking that Jpeg support might have to be preemptively removed like Gif support was removed. (Although the Gif patents have expired in America and will expire in Europe in June) When was GIF support removed and why didn't I notice? Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] The issue of JPEG Patents?
Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: On Friday 23 April 2004 18:39, Alan Horkan wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/23/forgent_jpeg_suit/ Has the issue of Jpeg Patents been brought up yet? (a quick but not thorough search suggests not) hmmm...What about waiting until october, and THEM start the Gimp Foundation? You can't sue what does not exist Honestly...I got scared for the GIMP when I read about the thou shalt not open scanned-up money images blurbs ... when I read about this JPEG patents, I did not even thought about the GIMP, because it's just too stupid. But..who knows where human greed can take us? Well you could still sue the plugin maintainer. but that is no point. It is greed drivin, thus there is a second, implict rule, thou shall not sue that which has no money. -- Dan ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
