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by pasta 3251 days ago
I had high hopes for FLIF. What I think is great is that the client can control how much data is downloaded. This is great for responsive use.

Unfortunately the license is holding back implementations.
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oliwarner 3250 days ago
> Unlike some other image formats (e.g. BPG and JPEG 2000), FLIF is completely royalty-free and it is not known to be encumbered by software patents.

The reference implementations are also open source (dual licensed between LGPL and Apache 2)... But even if you don't like those, you can write your own under whatever license you like. They're just implementations of a spec.

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jonsneyers 3251 days ago
How so? The FLIF reference implementation is Apache 2.0 licensed for the decoder, how does that hold back implementations?
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