From: "Dr. Klaus Bartz" <bartzkau@ina.de>
Subject: Re: Revison 7.0 
Message-Id: <364C10B0.167E@ina.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:50:00

In general I am a little bit confused from patents.

Ok JBIG uses some patents. Up to know I have thought, that JPEG uses
patents ( arithmetic coding ? ) too. Never heard, that someone pay 
license fees for JPEG.

But on www.jpeg.org/public/jpegnew.htm there is a line which
says that IBM will frees it QM patent. What should I think ?

Some time I have read, that a license from one patent owner is enough
to use JBIG.
