On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 01:52:28PM +0530, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
> Hi all
>
> In reply to Gregory Maxwell:
> >> It's well known around the Internet that to achieve compatibility you
> >> should be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you
> >> accept. Applied to JPEG: Use only Huffman
Björn Persson wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I believe that they'd be best advised to say "no", because at this point
>> one of JPEG's principal attractions is near-universal compatibility.
>> Throwing A/C into the mix will throw that away, for what really is a
>> very marginal gain in compression eff
Hi all
In reply to Gregory Maxwell:
>> It's well known around the Internet that to achieve compatibility you
>> should be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you
>> accept. Applied to JPEG: Use only Huffman coding when encoding ?
>> except maybe if you know that all recipients can ha
Björn Persson wrote:
> It's well known around the Internet that to achieve compatibility you
> should be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept.
> Applied to JPEG: Use only Huffman coding when encoding – except maybe if
> you know that all recipients can handle arithmetic codi
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Paul F. Johnson
wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> "You shall not create images with arithmetic coding" is like saying "You
>> shall not create images of the flying sphagetti monster." It's not up to
>> Fedora to make this choice for me.
>
> It is though - you have chosen to use Fed
Tom Lane wrote:
> I believe that they'd be best advised to say "no", because at this point
> one of JPEG's principal attractions is near-universal compatibility.
> Throwing A/C into the mix will throw that away, for what really is a
> very marginal gain in compression efficiency.
It's well known a
Kevin Fenzi writes:
> On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 22:53:53 +0530
> Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
>> Arithmetic coding in Fedora libjpeg (bug #639531)
> My thoughts:
> - We should not be making this change in stable releases even if
> otherwise like the idea. It could well cause issues and problems with
>
Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Just for the record, AFAIK there are only two countries which allows
> software patents - USA and South Korea.
That's not the whole story. The situation is quite weird in countries that
have signed the European Patent Convention. The convention and the national
laws all s
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 22:53:53 +0530
Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
> Arithmetic coding in Fedora libjpeg (bug #639531)
...snip long thing...
My thoughts:
- We should not be making this change in stable releases even if
otherwise like the idea. It could well cause issues and problems with
a fragile
Hi,
> > Remember, Fedora is not just for use in your country - there are piles
> > of countries it's used in, each with their own insane patent
> > regulations. The fedora stance is that if it offends, it's out.
>
> Just for the record, AFAIK there are only two countries which allows
> software p
2010/10/2 Paul F. Johnson :
> Remember, Fedora is not just for use in your country - there are piles
> of countries it's used in, each with their own insane patent
> regulations. The fedora stance is that if it offends, it's out.
Just for the record, AFAIK there are only two countries which allow
Hi,
> "You shall not create images with arithmetic coding" is like saying "You
> shall not create images of the flying sphagetti monster." It's not up to
> Fedora to make this choice for me.
It is though - you have chosen to use Fedora therefore have to live with
the decisions the Fedora legal pe
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