Re: EXIV2 BMFF Patents situation

2023-11-12 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 9:42 AM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 12 2023 at 01:48:25 PM +0100, Robert-André Mauchin > wrote: > > So while I appreciate the caution, I think it's OK to just enable the > > BMFF code by > > default (perhaps have an option to disable it, if someone is still >

Re: EXIV2 BMFF Patents situation

2023-11-12 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sun, Nov 12 2023 at 01:48:25 PM +0100, Robert-André Mauchin wrote: So while I appreciate the caution, I think it's OK to just enable the BMFF code by default (perhaps have an option to disable it, if someone is still for some reason worried, but imo that would be an unfounded worry). Otherwi

EXIV2 BMFF Patents situation

2023-11-12 Thread Robert-André Mauchin
Hello, In order to update Exiv2, we need to know if this is okay to enable BMFF support. Patents have theoretically expired and it is enabled by default in the latest version. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979565 https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/1679 Upstream seems to thi