Re: When will Gimp support JPEG2000

1999-12-13 Thread Eduardo Perez
[...] If it becomes widely used, I'm sure someone will be willing to risk being sued (as I have with TIFF implementation) and provide an ^^ illegal JPEG 2000 plug-in for Gimp, or otherwise a proprietary software company will make use of the LGPL

Re: When will Gimp support JPEG2000

1999-12-13 Thread Nick Lamb
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:56:57PM +0100, Eduardo Perez wrote: [...] If it becomes widely used, I'm sure someone will be willing to risk being sued (as I have with TIFF implementation) and provide an ^^ Could you talk a bit more about that,

Re: When will Gimp support JPEG2000

1999-12-10 Thread Garry R. Osgood
Max Moritz Sievers wrote: Hello, is there a plan to support JPEG2000? In case you do not know yet what JPEG2000 is, here is an article from ZDnet: JPEG 2000 to give the Web a new image Next version of graphics file format might even dazzle the pros. By Luisa Simone, http://www.pcmag.com/ April

Re: When will Gimp support JPEG2000

1999-12-10 Thread Nick Lamb
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 12:17:49AM +0100, Max Moritz Sievers wrote: Hello, is there a plan to support JPEG2000? I don't think so, unless JPEG change their mind about the direction for future imaging standards. cynical IMHO JPEG 2000 is an attempt to fix a mistake made in the original JPEG