On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Jay Berkenbilt <q...@debian.org> wrote: > Michael van der Kolff <mvanderko...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> JBIGKit has been packaged for Debian (source package jbigkit), and is >> now in unstable. >> >> Please use it; the only change needed on my system was to >> Build-Depends on libjbig-dev > > Does that mean that the JBIG patents have all finally expired? (Checks > google.) Wow, it looks like that just happened two days ago. Is that > your understanding? Yep, that's my understanding. > I guess you were just waiting until the right > moment. Quite so, though I was preparing it in January - I got an email from a sponsor about 3 months later :)
> If so, I will definitely support it in libtiff. There's a > security update going in now. After that transitions, I'll upload with > JBIG support. When do you expect that to be? My use case for this is actually fax, which means that I need one final piece from HylaFAX before I can go ahead and use it. HylaFAX only builds with JBIG support if both libtiff with JBIG exists, and the JBIG headers also exist. > One of my first acts in debian even before I became a DD > was to prepare a libtiff update that added LZW support, which I did > right after the LZW patents finally expired. Somehow I thought JBIG was > still a few years off, but I guess time flies. Indeed it does. Thanks for the prompt answer! > > -- > Jay Berkenbilt <q...@debian.org> Warmest regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
