[ANNOUNCE] Spring loading folder behaviour (bad news inside)

[Thiago Macieira]

Luciano Montanaro wrote:
>Sure, that'd be better, if it is possible. But patents are coming out
>for everything, and if they were to be enforced, we'd be in deep
> trouble. Not KDE alone, obviously. How do we deal, for example with
> the "new" JPEG patent?

There are enough people fighting that. The JPEG standard was made so 
that decoding is patent-free and unencumbered, by the various parties 
that even held patents. The same goes for JPEG2000 decoding and MPEG 
decoding: what is patented is the encoding and then only certain 
algorithms which are not wholly necessary (i.e., you can make an 
encoder without them). (JPEG and JPEG2000 at least, I am uncertain 
about MPEG)

If that were to be ruled a valid patent, we should take a position then 
only.

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