libjpeg for F14
Hans de Goede
hdegoede at redhat.com
Wed May 26 18:21:45 UTC 2010
Hi all,
On 05/22/2010 05:55 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> hi there,
>
> Can it be updated to upstream version in rawhide ?
>
> The libjpeg version(6b) in Fedora is quite old(27-Mar-1998).
> And newer versions were released on:
>
> Version 7 27-Jun-2009
> Version 8 10-Jan-2010
> Version 8a 28-Feb-2010
> Version 8b 16-May-2010
> <http://www.ijg.org/>
>
May I point out that libjpeg version 7 and later add support
for the patented (and optional) arithmetic coding part of the
JPEG spec. So before we go any further in discussing whether
or not to switch to a newer libjpeg we first need to investigate
what the legal status of these newer versions is.
Regards,
Hans
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