[Digikam-devel] JPEG2000 support...

[Hubert Figuiere]

Gilles Caulier wrote:

> Right. But how Jasper project drive patent issues. This library is distributed 
> under MIT license. Duing JPEG2000 patents, there is a risk to use this 
> library in a GPL project like digiKam ?

Much like ffmpeg and other libraries deal with patents for video
decoding and encoding, and mp3.
But a camera manufacturer will surely get sued for patent infringement.
So that's an added cost, the patent license.


Hub