On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 18:14:20 +0100, Lutz-Peter Hooge <lpv### [at] gmxde>
wrote:

>Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>
>>   Do you seriously think JPEG is completely free of patents?
>
>If you include trivial patents, probably not (and AFAIK there
>are features in jpeg that nobody implements because there are
>patent issues on them).
>
>But jpeg has been there for a long time now, and there are LOTS of
>implementations so it is highly unlikely that you get sued if you
>make yet another implementation.

Software design by lawyer eh? Dear me.

>
>Lutz-Peter

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