Re: Bug#153467: libjpeg62: JPEG is patent-encumbered]

2002-07-21 Thread Florian Weimer
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've had the impression that the remaining life of the patent is really > quite short, too, and that they're going after people with money while > they can. The European counterpart might live much longer. It was granted in 1994. Even if the counter st

Re: Bug#153467: libjpeg62: JPEG is patent-encumbered]

2002-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 02:37:46PM -0700, David Starner wrote: > So there's allegedly a patent on JPEG. I think someone came up with a > patent on run-length encoding at one point. Legally, moving it to > non-free is a lousy cop-out, which I don't think changes our liability > one bit. IMO, for the