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- Sam Leffler writes:
- > My understanding is that JBIG requires the licensing of several
- > patents. This makes it an unlikely candidate for a free software
- > package such as mine.
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- JBIG relies heavily on arithmetic coding, an entropy coding method
- patented by IBM. The JBIG arithmetic coder is identical to the one
- defined in the JPEG standard. Luckily, JPEG also allows Huffman
- coding, making it possible for the IJG to provide a public domain
- implementation from which arithmetic coding has been left out.
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- Talking about licensing; what applies to the LZW compression
- implemented in LibTIFF?
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- /F
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- BTW: I'm not that sure that JBIG should be stuffed into TIFF at all;
- the forthcoming ISO SPIFF standard merges JPEG, JBIG and Group 3/4
- into one very complete interchange format.
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