>I found also JasPer[1] which does pretty much of the thing I searched >for, I'm not sure whether the license of JasPer is compatible with >GPL and whether it is possible to include it into netpbm, also it is >not Java but C code.
Great, I'll look at that too. The web site was down when I tried to look yesterday, so I assumed it was obsolete. But it's all there now, and looks like what Netpbm needs. The license is clearly not compatible with GPL, as it imposes two restrictions on redistribution. One of them is directly contrary to the spirit of Free Software that GPL is intended to advance: It says you can't use the software in a program that extends the JPEG 2000 standard. JJ2000 has the same restriction. But Netpbm is not GPL -- its parts have a wide variety of licenses, and I don't see a problem with packaging JasPer into Netpbm as pnmtoj2k/j2ktopnm. -- Bryan Henderson Phone 408-621-2000 San Jose, California -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/