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2005.07.25 18:30 "Re: JBIG compression support", by Lee Howard
> > I am sending this message to announce the development and to solicit > > any discussion that others may wish to have on this topic. > > Most excellent! JBIG-KIT uses the GPL license (not LGPL) and I have > heard that use of JBIG is covered by some patents. Since this is the > case, should the configure script default to not supporting JBIG so > that users don't accidentally violate licenses? The patch on the bug report does not enable JBIG support unless --enable-jbig is used. I don't have any preference whether it remains like this or if it is changed to autodetect. For those who may wish to use JBIG-KIT outside of the GPL, I do believe that Markus offers other licensing privately, but my understanding is that the licensing will not offer any patent indemnification. Markus seems to have done a deliberate and thorough analysis of the patent situation here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/patents.html As I am not a patent lawyer I can't really offer any more comments on the patent issue than that. Thanks, Lee.