[pdf-devel] Re: jbig2dec now licensed GPLv2 or later

[Ralph Giles]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 08:38:09AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:

> Wonderful news! Many thanks to you and to artofcode. Now we can write
> support for the jbig2 filter using your decoder and the
> apache-licensed encoder. 

Excellent, I'm glad it was a useful move.

I would however reinterate my argument that a GNU project should not be 
supporting jbig2 (or JPX) encoding. This is a patented format. The risk 
for decoder implementations is low, and it is beneficial to be able to 
render and convert documents using this filter, but we should not be 
encouraging users to create such documents anew.

 -r