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  • From: Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] jasper license
  • Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:57:28 +0100

On Tuesday 26 December 2006 01:13, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> The spell for jasper (a free JPEG-2000 implementation) is in z-rejected.
> The rejected message claims this:
>
> Restrictions due to jpeg-2000 patents - check
> http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/LICENSE
>
> Am I missing something here because I can't see anything about patent
> issues in that document? It looks like a BSD-style license. Also the
> project page [0] only mentions "JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard (i.e., ISO/IEC
> 15444-1)", which I believe isn't a reference to a patent. Also Debian's
> jasper package is in the main section [1], not in non-free.
>
> So is there a valid case here for keeping jasper in z-rejected? Kdelibs can
> use it, and I wouldn't want to cross-reference z-rejected.
>

It looked ok to me when I updated jasper. Also, future versions of digikam
will neeed it. I agree that it should go to the main grimoire.

> [0] http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/
> [1] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libjasper-1.701-1

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Regards, Treeve

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