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some DjVu source available under AT&T license

Posted by sengan on from the yet-another-license dept.

This story is a week old, but I had not seen it before. Apparently, AT&T is making some source code for its DjVu image compressor available under yet another license, in a bid to improve its acceptance. They're open to discussion about it, so make your views known to them. Link from Openresources.

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  1. This is great by Fizgig · · Score: 2

    I just checked out the plugin. What they have so far is really impressive. Try viewing the comics. It's a great demonstration. First it loads the text, then image, then color. This is not something that can replace gifs or jpegs, and it's not meant to. What it may and should (with community support) replace is pdf files. Those of you who have problems with the license, TELL THEM ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS. For once a company that is asking for help from the community is asking for our help in determing the terms of our service. This, in my opinion, is nothing but good news.

  2. Whats up with all this ? by Q*bert · · Score: 2
    Of course it is, you silly! This is the way the world works. An idea is conceived and incubated by a few unrecognized geniuses, then its time comes and it hatches out for the world to see, then it grows explosively, and then it becomes entrenched as the dominant paradigm. We're in the first steps of the penultimate stage. Whenever something's in that stage, it becomes almost unbearably hip. Just look at the popularization of the Internet!

    Now, what I want to know is, Why would anyone complain about open source code gaining popularity?
    :P
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